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On the Reduction of Bias of Ratio Estimator to a Desired Degree
Author(s) -
Singh M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
biometrical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-4036
pISSN - 0323-3847
DOI - 10.1002/bimj.4710210706
Subject(s) - estimator , degree (music) , statistics , mathematics , reduction (mathematics) , ratio estimator , bias of an estimator , sample size determination , minimum variance unbiased estimator , efficient estimator , econometrics , physics , geometry , acoustics
This paper advocates a procedure of obtaining an estimator (as a linear combination of a set of ratio estimators) whose bias can be reduced to a desired degree of sample size without any additional loss in efficiency.
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