The problem of finding unbiased ratio estimators of the population total of some character with the help of an auxiliary character has drawn much attention in recent years. Some references to this are ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

The SURVEYMEANS procedure uses the Taylor expansion method to estimate sampling errors of estimators based on complex sample designs. This method obtains a linear approximation for the estimator and ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002) Vol. 55, No. 3, Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of P. C. Mahalanobis (Dec., 1993), pp. 385-392 (8 pages) The purpose of this paper ...