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ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF RATIO ESTIMATOR OF POPULATION MEDIAN BY CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES

Journal: International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology (IJESRT) (Vol.9, No. 8)

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Page : 14-23

Keywords : Calibration estimation; Mean square error; Median estimation; Ratio-type estimator; Stratified random sampling.;

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Abstract

The use of calibration estimation techniques in survey sampling have been found to improve the precision of estimators. This paper adopts the calibration approach with the assumption that the population median of the auxiliary variable is known to obtain a more efficient ratio-type estimator in estimating population median in stratified sampling. Conditions necessary for efficiency comparison have been obtained which show that the proposed estimator will always perform better than the existing asymptotically unbiased separate estimators in stratified random sampling. Numerical evaluations have been carried out through simulation and real-life data to compliment the theoretical claims. Results from the simulation study carried out under three distributional assumptions, namely the chi square, lognormal and Cauchy distributions with different sample settings showed that the new estimator provided better estimate of the median with greater gain in efficiency. In addition, result from the real-life data further supports the superiority of the proposed estimator over the existing ones considered in this study.

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