Efficient estimation of population mean using incomplete survey data on study and auxiliary characteristics
This paper considers the problem of estimating the population mean using the ratio and product methods when some observations in the sample data are missing at random and the population mean of the auxiliary characteristic is not known. Besides an unbiased estimator arising from the total discard of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2007-10-01
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Series: | Statistica |
Online Access: | http://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/350 |