scholarly journals Logarithmic Ratio-Type Estimator of Population Coefficient of Variation

Author(s):  
M. A. Yunusa ◽  
A. Audu ◽  
N. Musa ◽  
D. O. Beki ◽  
A. Rashida ◽  
...  

The estimation of population coefficient of variation is one of the challenging aspects in sampling survey techniques for the past decades and much effort has been employed to develop estimators to produce its efficient estimate. In this paper, we proposed logarithmic ratio type estimator for the estimating population coefficient of variation using logarithm transformation on the both population and sample variances of the auxiliary character. The expression for the mean squared error (MSE) of the proposed estimator has been derived using Taylor series first order approximation approach. Efficiency conditions of the proposed estimator over other estimators in the study has also been derived. The empirical study was conducted using two-sets of populations and the results showed that the proposed estimator is more efficient. This result implies that, the estimate of proposed estimator will be closer to the true parameter than the estimates of other estimators in the study.

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.L. Mandowara ◽  
Nitu Mehta

In this paper we suggest two modified estimators of the population mean using the power transformation based on ranked set sampling (RSS). The first order approximation of the bias and of the mean squared error of the proposed estimators are obtained. A generalized version of the suggested estimators by applying the power transformation is also presented. Theoretically, it is shown that these suggested estimators are more efficient than the estimators in simple random sampling (SRS). A numerical illustration is also carried out to demonstrate the merits of the proposed estimators using RSS over the usual estimators in SRS.


2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Bao

We study the finite-sample bias and mean squared error, when properly defined, of the sample coefficient of variation under a general distribution. We employ a Nagar-type expansion and use moments of quadratic forms to derive the results. We find that the approximate bias depends on not only the skewness but also the kurtosis of the distribution, whereas the approximate mean squared error depends on the cumulants up to order 6.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1054-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Wilhelm

A two-step generalized method of moments estimation procedure can be made robust to heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation in the data by using a nonparametric estimator of the optimal weighting matrix. This paper addresses the issue of choosing the corresponding smoothing parameter (or bandwidth) so that the resulting point estimate is optimal in a certain sense. We derive an asymptotically optimal bandwidth that minimizes a higher-order approximation to the asymptotic mean-squared error of the estimator of interest. We show that the optimal bandwidth is of the same order as the one minimizing the mean-squared error of the nonparametric plugin estimator, but the constants of proportionality are significantly different. Finally, we develop a data-driven bandwidth selection rule and show, in a simulation experiment, that it may substantially reduce the estimator’s mean-squared error relative to existing bandwidth choices, especially when the number of moment conditions is large.


2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huizhen Guo ◽  
Nabendu Pal

This paper deals with estimation of θ when iid (independent and identically distributed) observations are available from a N( θ, cθ2) distribution where c > 0 is assumed to be known. Using the equivariance principle under the group of scale and direction transformations we first characterize the class of equivariant estimators of θ. We then investigate a few equivariant estimators, including the maximum likelihood estimator, in terms of standardized bias and standardized mean squared error.


2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sana Amjad ◽  
◽  
Muhammad Ismail ◽  

This paper provides an efficient transformed ratio-type estimator to estimate the study variable's population variance by utilizing information of a single auxiliary variable under simple random sampling without replacement. The bias and mean squared error of the proposed estimator are derived up-to 1st order approximation. In addition to this, the efficiency comparison of the proposed estimator has been done with traditional ratio-type variance estimator and some other widely used modified ratio-type variance estimators by taking real-life data. A simulation study has also been carried out to see the performance of the proposed estimator. It is worth noticing that our proposed estimator performs better than the competing estimators in real-life data applications as the mean squared error and root mean squared error of our proposed estimator are smaller than the competing estimators. Hence, our proposed estimator is better than existing variance estimators.


2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ádám Csorba ◽  
Vince Láng ◽  
László Fenyvesi ◽  
Erika Michéli

Napjainkban egyre nagyobb igény mutatkozik olyan technológiák és módszerek kidolgozására és alkalmazására, melyek lehetővé teszik a gyors, költséghatékony és környezetbarát talajadat-felvételezést és kiértékelést. Ezeknek az igényeknek felel meg a reflektancia spektroszkópia, mely az elektromágneses spektrum látható (VIS) és közeli infravörös (NIR) tartományában (350–2500 nm) végzett reflektancia-mérésekre épül. Figyelembe véve, hogy a talajokról felvett reflektancia spektrum információban nagyon gazdag, és a vizsgált tartományban számos talajalkotó rendelkezik karakterisztikus spektrális „ujjlenyomattal”, egyetlen görbéből lehetővé válik nagyszámú, kulcsfontosságú talajparaméter egyidejű meghatározása. Dolgozatunkban, a reflektancia spektroszkópia alapjaira helyezett, a talajok ösz-szetételének meghatározását célzó módszertani fejlesztés első lépéseit mutatjuk be. Munkánk során talajok szervesszén- és CaCO3-tartalmának megbecslését lehetővé tévő többváltozós matematikai-statisztikai módszerekre (részleges legkisebb négyzetek módszere, partial least squares regression – PLSR) épülő prediktív modellek létrehozását és tesztelését végeztük el. A létrehozott modellek tesztelése során megállapítottuk, hogy az eljárás mindkét talajparaméter esetében magas R2értéket [R2(szerves szén) = 0,815; R2(CaCO3) = 0,907] adott. A becslés pontosságát jelző közepes négyzetes eltérés (root mean squared error – RMSE) érték mindkét paraméter esetében közepesnek mondható [RMSE (szerves szén) = 0,467; RMSE (CaCO3) = 3,508], mely a reflektancia mérési előírások standardizálásával jelentősen javítható. Vizsgálataink alapján arra a következtetésre jutottunk, hogy a reflektancia spektroszkópia és a többváltozós kemometriai eljárások együttes alkalmazásával, gyors és költséghatékony adatfelvételezési és -értékelési módszerhez juthatunk.


AIAA Journal ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 1721-1727
Author(s):  
Prasanth B. Nair ◽  
Andrew J. Keane ◽  
Robin S. Langley

Author(s):  
Nadia Hashim Al-Noor ◽  
Shurooq A.K. Al-Sultany

        In real situations all observations and measurements are not exact numbers but more or less non-exact, also called fuzzy. So, in this paper, we use approximate non-Bayesian computational methods to estimate inverse Weibull parameters and reliability function with fuzzy data. The maximum likelihood and moment estimations are obtained as non-Bayesian estimation. The maximum likelihood estimators have been derived numerically based on two iterative techniques namely “Newton-Raphson” and the “Expectation-Maximization” techniques. In addition, we provide compared numerically through Monte-Carlo simulation study to obtained estimates of the parameters and reliability function in terms of their mean squared error values and integrated mean squared error values respectively.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Ismail Sh. Baqer

A two Level Image Quality enhancement is proposed in this paper. In the first level, Dualistic Sub-Image Histogram Equalization DSIHE method decomposes the original image into two sub-images based on median of original images. The second level deals with spikes shaped noise that may appear in the image after processing. We presents three methods of image enhancement GHE, LHE and proposed DSIHE that improve the visual quality of images. A comparative calculations is being carried out on above mentioned techniques to examine objective and subjective image quality parameters e.g. Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio PSNR values, entropy H and mean squared error MSE to measure the quality of gray scale enhanced images. For handling gray-level images, convenient Histogram Equalization methods e.g. GHE and LHE tend to change the mean brightness of an image to middle level of the gray-level range limiting their appropriateness for contrast enhancement in consumer electronics such as TV monitors. The DSIHE methods seem to overcome this disadvantage as they tend to preserve both, the brightness and contrast enhancement. Experimental results show that the proposed technique gives better results in terms of Discrete Entropy, Signal to Noise ratio and Mean Squared Error values than the Global and Local histogram-based equalization methods


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