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Investigating the use of quartile ranked set samples for estimating the population mean

  • Hassen A. Muttlak*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The ranked sampling method (ranked set sampling, RSS) as suggested by McIntyre [Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 3 (1952) 385] may be modified to come up with new sampling method called quartile ranked set sampling (QRSS) method. The newly suggested sampling method QRSS is compare to the simple random sampling (SRS), RSS and median ranked set sampling (MRSS) methods. It turns out that QRSS is more efficient than its counterpart SRS method for the distributions considered in this study. Also, it is more efficient than the RSS method for most of the probability distributions considered in this study. Finally it is more efficient than the MRSS method for some of the asymmetric probability distributions considered in this paper.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)437-443
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Mathematics and Computation
Volume146
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Dec 2003

Keywords

  • Errors in ranking
  • Median ranked set sampling
  • Ranked set sampling
  • Relative precision
  • Simple random sampling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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