Article ID: | iaor20032569 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 56 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 171 |
End Page Number: | 179 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | Metrika |
Authors: | Bouza C.N. |
The estimation of the population mean when ranked set sampling [rss] is used for selecting the sample and non responses [nr] are present, is studied. The nr stratum is sub sampled using simple random sampling with replacement. Two strategies are analyzed. One of them is based on the selection of a sub sample from the nr in each cycle. The other uses sub samples selected among the nr in each rank. The accuracy of the proposed estimators is characterized by the corresponding expected variances. Simulations and real life data are used for analyzing the behavior of them.