Advances in StatisticsVolume 2014 (2014), Article ID 974604, 9 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/974604

Research Article

Efficient Estimators Using Auxiliary Variable under Second Order Approximation in Simple Random Sampling and Two-Phase Sampling

Rajesh Singh and Prayas Sharma

Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India

Received 21 July 2014; Accepted 19 August 2014; Published 3 September 2014

Academic Editor: Chin-Shang Li

Copyright © 2014 Rajesh Singh and Prayas Sharma. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

This paper suggests some estimators for population mean of the study variable in simple random sampling and two-phase sampling using information on an auxiliary variable under second order approximation. Bahl and Tuteja (1991) and Singh et al. (2008) proposed some efficient estimators and studied the properties of the estimators to the first order of approximation. In this paper, we have tried to find out the second order biases and mean square errors of these estimators using information on auxiliary variable based on simple random sampling and two-phase sampling. Finally, an empirical study is carried out to judge the merits of the estimators over others under first and second order of approximation.

1. Introduction

Let denote a finite population of distinct and identifiable units. For the estimation of population mean of a study variable , let us consider to be the auxiliary variable that is correlated with study variable , taking the corresponding values of the units. Let a sample of size be drawn from this population using simple random sampling without replacement (SRSWOR) and , () are the values of the study variable and auxiliary variable, respectively, for the th units of the sample.

In sampling theory the use of suitable auxiliary information results in considerable reduction in MSE of the ratio estimators. Many authors including Singh and Tailor [1], Kadilar and Cingi [2], Singh et al. [3], and Singh and Kumar [4] suggested estimators using some known population parameters of an auxiliary variable in simple random sampling. These authors studied the properties of the estimators to the first order of approximation. But sometimes it is important to know the behavior of the estimators to the second order of approximation because up to the first order of approximation the behavior of the estimators is almost the same, while the properties for second order change drastically. Hossain et al. [5] and Sharma and Singh [6, 7] studied the properties of some estimators to the second order approximation. Sharma et al. [8, 9] also studied the properties of some estimators under second order of approximation using information on auxiliary attributes. In this paper we have studied properties of some exponential estimators under second order of approximation in simple random sampling and two-phase sampling using information on an auxiliary variable.

2. Some Estimators in Simple Random Sampling

For estimating the population mean of , the exponential ratio estimator is given by where and (the notation is used to represents for simple random sampling).

The classical exponential product type estimator is given by Following Srivastava [10] an estimator is defined as where is a constant suitably chosen by minimizing MSE of . For , is the same as conventional exponential ratio estimator, whereas, for , it becomes conventional exponential product type estimator.

Again for estimating the population meanof , Singh et al. [11] defined an estimator as where is the constant and suitably chosen by minimizing mean square error of the estimator .

3. Notations Used

Let us define, and , and then .

For obtaining the bias and MSE the following lemmas will be used.

Lemma 1. Consider

Lemma 2. Consider

Lemma 3. Consider where

For proof of these lemmas see P. V. Sukhatme and B. V. Sukhatme [12].

4. Biases and Mean Squared Errors to the First Order of Approximation

Bias and MSE of the estimators , , and are, respectively, written as By minimizing , the optimum value of is obtained as . By putting this optimum value of in (13) and (14) we get the minimum value for bias and MSE of the estimator .

The bias and MSE of estimator are given, respectively, as By minimizing , the optimum value of is obtained as . By putting this optimum value of in (15) we get the minimum value for bias and MSE of the estimator. We found that for the optimum cases the biases of the estimators and are different but the MSE expressions of estimators and are similar to the first order of approximation. It is also analyzed that the MSEs of the estimators and are always less than the MSEs of the estimators and . This prompted us to study the estimators and under second order approximation.

5. Second Order Biases and Mean Squared Errors

Expressing estimator ’s () in terms of ’s (), we get Or The Bias of the estimators is Using (17), we have or or The biases and MSE’s of the estimators , , and to second order of approximation, respectively, as The optimum value of we get by minimizing . But theoretically the determination of the optimum value ofis very difficult; we have calculated the optimum value by using numerical techniques. Similarly, the optimum value of which minimizes the MSE of the estimator is obtained by using numerical techniques.

6. Empirical Study

For a natural population data, we calculate the biases and the mean squared errors of the estimators and compare biases and MSEs of the estimators under first and second order of approximation.

6.1. Data Set

The data is taken from 1981, Utter Pradesh District Census Handbook, Aligarh. The population consists of 340 villages under koil police station, with being number of agricultural labour in 1981 and being area of the villages (in acre) in 1981. The following values are obtained:

Table 1 exhibits the biases and MSEs of the estimators , , , and which are written under first order and second order of approximation. The estimator is exponential product estimator and it is proposed for the case of negative correlation; therefore, the bias and mean squared error for estimator are greater than the other estimators considered here. For ratio estimators, it is observed that the biases and the mean squared errors increased for second order. Estimators and have the same mean squared errors for the first order but the mean squared errors of for the second order are less than . So, on the basis of the given dataset, we conclude that the estimator is best followed by the estimator among the estimators considered here.

Table 1: Bias and MSE of estimators.

Estimators
Bias
MSE

First order
Second order
First order
Second order

0.062981
0.062546
39.231071
39.348971

0.053623
0.052483
72.256693
73.329202

0.057063
0.056678
39.218063
39.131656

0.062513
0.062043
39.218073
39.334929

7. Two-Phase Sampling

In the case when population mean of the auxiliary character is not known in advance, we go for two-phase (double) sampling. The two-phase sampling can be powerful and cost-effective (economical) procedure for finding the infallible estimate for first phase sample for the unknown parameters of the auxiliary character and hence plays an eminent role in survey sampling; for instance, see Hidiroglou and Sarndal [13].

Considering SRSWOR (simple random sampling without replacement) design in each phase, the two-phase sampling scheme is as follows:(i)the first phase sample () of a fixed size is drawn to measure only in order to formulate a good estimate of a population mean ;(ii)given , the second phase sample () of a fixed size is drawn to measure only.Let , , and .

The estimators considered in Section 2 can be defined in two-phase sampling as The classical exponential product type estimator in two-phase sampling is given by The estimator in two-phase sampling is defined as where is a constant suitably chosen by minimizing MSE of . For , is the same as conventional exponential ratio estimator, whereas, for , it becomes conventional exponential product type estimator.

The estimator in two-phase sampling is defined as where is a constant and is suitably chosen by minimizing mean square error of the estimator .

8. Notations under Two-Phase Sampling

Notations defined in Section 3 can be written in two-phase sampling for SRSWOR as follows.

Lemma 4. Consider

Lemma 5. Consider

Lemma 6. Consider where

Proof of these lemmas is straight forward by using SRSWOR (see P. V. Sukhatme and B. V. Sukhatme [12]).

9. First Order Biases and Mean Squared Errors in Two-Phase Sampling

The bias and MSEs of the estimators , , and in two-phase sampling, respectively, are By minimizing , the optimum value of is obtained as . By putting this optimum value ofin (41) and (42), we get the minimum value for bias and MSE of the estimator .

The expressions for the bias and MSE of to the first order of approximation are given below By minimizing , the optimum value of is obtained as . By putting this optimum value of in (43) we get the minimum value for bias and MSE of the estimator . We analyzed that our study should be extended to the second order of approximation as earlier.

10. Second Order Biases and Mean Squared Errors in Two-Phase Sampling

Expressing estimator () in terms of ’s (), we get or The bias of the estimator to the second order of approximation is Using (45) we get MSE of up to second order of approximation as or The biases and MSE’s of the estimators , , and to the second order of approximation are, respectively, as follows: We can get the optimum value of and by minimizing and , respectively. But theoretically the determination of the optimum values of and is very difficult; therefore, we have calculated the optimum values by using numerical techniques.

11. Empirical Study

For a natural population data set considered in Section 6, we calculate the biases and the mean squared errors of the estimators and compare the biases and MSE’s of the estimators under first and second order of approximations.

Table 2 exhibits the biases and MSE’s of the estimators , , , and which are written under first order and second order of approximation for two-phase sampling. The estimator is exponential product estimator and it is considered in case of negative correlation. So the bias and mean squared error for this estimator is more than the other estimators considered here. For the classical exponential ratio estimator in two-phase sampling, it is observed that the biases and the mean squared errors increased for second order. The estimators and have the same mean squared error for the first order but the mean squared error of is less than for the second order. So, on the basis of the given dataset we conclude that the estimator is best followed by the estimator in tow phase sampling, among the estimators considered here.

Table 2: Bias and MSE of estimators under two phase sampling.

Estimators
Bias
MSE

First order
Second order
First order
Second order

0.075448919
0.0753124
158.5067369
158.90969

0.049751632
0.0474159
221.9313664
222.50215

0.061931
0.0620135
158.320
158.3868

0.07413
0.0739541
158.320
158.99492

12. Conclusion

In this paper we have studied the Bahl and Tuteja [14] exponential ratio and exponential product type estimators and Singh et al. [11] estimators under first order and second order of approximation in simple random sampling and two-phase sampling. It is observed that up to the first order of approximation both estimators are equally efficient in the sense of mean squared error but when we consider the second order approximation the estimator ( in two-phase sampling) is best followed by the estimator ( in two-phase sampling). Theoretical results are also supported through two natural population datasets.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

Authors wish to thank the editor Chin-Shang Li and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments that aided in improving this paper.

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