摘要:The key and fundamental purpose of sampling over successive waves lies in the varying nature of study character, it so may happen with ancillary information if the time lag between two successive waves is sufficiently large. Keeping the varying nature of auxiliary information in consideration, modern approaches have been proposed to estimate population mean over two successive waves. Four exponential ratio type estimators have been designed. The properties of proposed estimators have been elaborated theoretically including the optimum rotation rate.Cost models have also been worked out to minimize the total cost of the survey design over two successive waves. Dominances of the proposed estimators have been shown over well-known existing estimators. Simulation algorithms have been designed and applied to corroborate the theoretical results.
关键词:Successive sampling;Exponential type estimators;Dynamic ancillary information Population mean;Bias;Mean squared error;Optimum rotation rate