Abstract

The present research aims to discuss the problem of non-response in estimating the population mean under stratified systematic sampling utilizing the information on a single auxiliary variable. The notion of calibration has been deemed to modify the non-response rates and also the stratum weights so that the resulting calibration estimators would provide more précised estimates. The expressions for the MSE of the proposed calibration estimators have been derived using the Taylor linearization technique. An empirical study based on simulated and real data has also been carried out to check the performance of the proposed calibration estimators. The study reveals that the proposed calibration estimators outperform the existing ones.

Author: Manoj K. Chaudhary and Tulika Dutta

Received on: November, 2022

Accepted on: December, 2023