%0 Journal Article
%T RANKED SET SAMPLING PROCEDURES FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE POPULATION MEAN UNDER NON RESPONSES: A COMPARISON
%A Carlos N. Bouza
%J Revista Investigaci¨®n Operacional
%D 2010
%I Universidad de La Habana
%X This paper analyses the use of ranked set sampling procedures for obtaining the sub-sample from the set of non-respondents. The first visit may serve for ranking accurately the sub-sampled non-respondents. The usual ranked set sample (rss) design and two variations of it : extreme-rss and median-rss are used for developing estimators of the population mean. Their expected variances and biases are obtained. A Monte Carlo experiment is developed for evaluating the behavior of the estimators. The use of rss appears as the best alternative.
%K extreme ranked set sampling
%K median ranked set sampling
%K non-response stratum
%K expected error.
%U http://rev-inv-ope.univ-paris1.fr/files/31210/31210-05r.pdf