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In some biological, environmental or ecological studies, there are situations in which obtaining exact measurements of sample units are much harder than ranking them in a set of small size without referring to their precise values. In these situations, ranked set sampling (RSS), proposed by McIntyre (1952), can be regarded as an alternative to the usual simple random sampling (SRS) to draw a more representative sample from the population of interest than what is possible in SRS. To draw a ranked set sample, one first draws n simple random samples, each of size n, from the population of interest and ranks them in an increasing magnitude. The ranking process is done without measuring sample units and therefore it need not to be accurate. One then identifies the ith sample unit from the ith sample for actual quantification (for i=1, ..., n). Finally, he repeats this process m times (cycle) if he/she is required to obtain a sample of size mn. Since a ranked set sample contains information from both measured sample units and their corresponding ranks, one intuitively expects that statistical inference based on RSS to be more accurate than what is possible to obtain based on SRS. This paper is concerned with problem of estimating variance of the normal distribution in RSS. Several methods of estimation of variance of the normal distribution are described and compared via a Monte Carlo simulation study.

Estimation of Variance of Normal Distribution using Ranked Set Sampling