| Article ID: | iaor2004869 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 3/4 |
| Start Page Number: | 345 |
| End Page Number: | 358 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Journal: | American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences |
| Authors: | Upadhyaya Lakshmi N., Singh Housila P. |
This paper proposes a class of estimators for estimating population standard deviation using auxiliary information in sample surveys. The large sample expressions for the bias and variance of the estimators are derived and the minimum variance obtained. An empirical study is carried out to demonstrate the performance of the constructed estimators over usual standard deviation estimator.