IMPROVED FAMILY OF RATIO TYPE ESTIMATORS FOR ESTIMATING POPULATION MEAN USING CONVENTIONAL AND NON CONVENTIONAL LOCATION PARAMETERS.

The present paper deals with estimation of population mean with more precision by incorporating the auxiliary information, as it has been recognised that incorporation of auxiliary information at design or at estimation stage or at both stages, results in more precision in estimating population parameters of interest. We have proposed the improved family of estimators by incorporating the auxiliary information of conventional and non-conventional location parameters and their linear combinations with correlation coefficient and coefficient of variation for estimating the population mean with more precision. The properties associated with the proposed estimators are assessed by mean square error and bias and compared with the classical and existing estimators. By this comparison we found that our proposed estimators are more efficient than the classical and existing estimators. Numerical illustration is also given in support of the theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]