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THE EFFICIENCY OF TIME SERIES ESTIMATORS FOR REPEATED SURVEYS
Author(s) -
Jones Roger G.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1979.tb01118.x
Subject(s) - estimator , series (stratigraphy) , statistics , mean squared error , mathematics , population mean , time series , mean square , population , econometrics , demography , sociology , paleontology , biology
Summary The classical approach to the analysis of data from repeated surveys, based on Patterson (1950), has recently been extended by the work of Blight and Scott (1973) and Scott and Smith (1974), by assuming that a time series relationship exists between the population parameters at different times. The purpose of this paper is to compare the efficiencies of these three approaches by computing the mean square error (MSE) of the estimators of the current mean and of the change in mean on the last two occasions.