Open AccessOn The Efficiency of Almost Unbiased Mean Imputation When Population Mean of Auxiliary Variable is UnknownOn The Efficiency of Almost Unbiased Mean Imputation When Population Mean of Auxiliary Variable is Unknown
Author(s) -
Ahmed Audu,
A. Danbaba,
S. K. Ahmad,
Norhayati Musa,
A. Shehu,
A. M. Ndatsu,
Aaron Joseph
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian journal of probability and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-0230
DOI - 10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430377
Subject(s) - imputation (statistics) , estimator , population mean , mathematics , statistics , missing data , mean squared error , population , econometrics , demography , sociology
Human-assisted surveys, such as medical and social science surveys, are frequently plagued by non-response or missing observations. Several authors have devised different imputation algorithms to account for missing observations during analyses. Nonetheless, several of these imputation schemes' estimators are based on known population meanof auxiliary variable. In this paper, a new class of almost unbiased imputation method that uses as an estimate of is suggested. Using the Taylor series expansion technique, the MSE of the class of estimators presented was derived up to first order approximation. Conditions were also specified for which the new estimators were more efficient than the other estimators studied in the study. The results of numerical examples through simulations revealed that the suggested class of estimators is more efficient.