Stratified Median Ranked Set Sampling: Optimum and Proportional Allocations

Multistage Median Ranked Set Sampling for Estimating the Population Median

We modify RSS to come up with new sampling method, namely, Multistage Median Ranked Set Sampling (MMRSS). The MMRSS was suggested for estimating the population median and to increase the efficiency of the estimator for specific value of the sample size. The MMRSS was compared to the Simple Random Sampling (SRS), Ranked Set Sampling (RSS) and Median Ranked Set Sampling (MRSS) methods. It is foun...

Parametric Ranked Set Sampling*

Ranked set sampling was introduced by McIntyre (1952, Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 3, 385-390) as a cost-effective method of selecting data if observations are much more cheaply ranked than measured. He proposed its use for estimating the population mean when the distribution of the data was unknown. In this paper, we examine the advantage, if any, that this method of sampling h...

Ranked Set Sampling

This paper is intended to provide the reader with an introduction to ranked set sampling, a statistical technique for data collection that generally leads to more efficient estimators than competitors based on simple random samples. Methods for obtaining ranked set samples are described and the structural differences between ranked set samples and simple random samples are discussed. Properties...

Ranked set sampling

Estimation of Variance of Normal Distribution using Ranked Set Sampling

Introduction     In some biological, environmental or ecological studies, there are situations in which obtaining exact measurements of sample units are much harder than ranking them in a set of small size without referring to their precise values. In these situations, ranked set sampling (RSS), proposed by McIntyre (1952), can be regarded as an alternative to the usual simple random sampling ...

Extreme ranked set sampling: A comparison with regression and ranked set sampling estimators

Ranked set sampling (RSS) assumed perfect ranking i.e. there will be no errors in ranking the units with respect to the variable of interest. In fact for most practical applications, it is not easy to rank the units without errors in ranking. There will be a loss in efficiency, i.e. RSS will give a larger variance due to the errors in ranking the units. To reduce the errors in ranking in estima...