New Generalized Estimators for the Population Variance Using Auxiliary Information

Authors : Y. insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(unyazici); TURGUT, H. CİNGİ

Pages : 177-184

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Publication Date : 2008-02-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :We suggest a generalized class of estimators for the population variance using an auxiliary variable. Triphati et al. insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(T.P. Tripathi, Singh, H.P. and Upadhyaya, L.N. A general method of estimation and its application to the estimation of coefficient of variation, Statistics in Transition 5insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(6);, 887–908, 2002); proposed some generalized estimators for a population parameter. By adapting these estimators to population variance, we develop some estimators. We obtain the mean square error insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MSE); equation of the proposed estimators. We illustrate the results with an application using original data.
Keywords : Variance estimation, Ratio estimator, Auxiliary variable, Bias, Minimum mean square error, 2000 AMS Classification 62D05