Unbalanced Ranked Set Sampling for Estimating a Population Proportion
- 20 October 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biometrics
- Vol. 62 (1), 150-158
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00435.x
Abstract
Summary The application of ranked set sampling (RSS) techniques to data from a dichotomous population is currently an active research topic, and it has been shown that balanced RSS leads to improvement in precision over simple random sampling (SRS) for estimation of a population proportion. Balanced RSS, however, is not in general optimal in terms of variance reduction for this setting. The objective of this article is to investigate the application of unbalanced RSS in estimation of a population proportion under perfect ranking, where the probabilities of success for the order statistics are functions of the underlying population proportion. In particular, the Neyman allocation, which assigns sample units for each order statistic proportionally to its standard deviation, is shown to be optimal in the sense that it leads to minimum variance within the class of RSS estimators that are simple averages of the means of the order statistics. We also use a substantial data set, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (NHANES III) data, to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of Neyman allocation in RSS for binary variables.Keywords
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