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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
In order to minimize errors in survey
estimation situation, it is imperative that we adopt a sampling method that is
capable of giving an improved results and which will be adjudged to be a better
representation of the population. In this study, efficient class of ratio–cum-product
estimators of population mean Y-
in Two Phase Sampling in presence of two auxiliary variables x and z was proposed. Members of the proposed
class of estimator were obtained by varying the scalars associated with the
proposed estimator, from where it was observed that the estimator produces the
traditional sample mean ratio estimator Y- , the dual to Singh and
Tailor (2005) estimator due to Tailor et al (2012), Singh and Tailor (2011)
generalized version of the dual to ratio-cum-product estimator of the
population mean Y-. Various attribute of the proposed estimator such as biases,
relative biases, Mean Square Errors (MSEs), and optimal MSEs were derived for
cases I and II to the quadratic form of Tailor’s series approximation.
Theoretical proposition for evaluating efficiency was established and empirical
study was conducted using Four (4) Agricultural data sets to ascertain the
veracity of the theoretical proposition, from where it was found out from the
results that the estimators TDS1TDS3,
TDS4, TDS5 and TDS12, were more
efficient in case I and estimators’ T*DS1T*DS3,
T*DS4, T*DS4T*DS9, T*DS12 and T*DS13
were more efficient in case II, having been ascertained to have produced
smaller MSEs. The gain in efficiency increases as the sample
size decreases and was more significant in case II. Therefore, sub-sampling
the second sample independent of the first sample is advantageous and
recommended for appreciable gain in efficiency and superiority over the first
phase in double sampling scheme.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2024 pp. 128-150