TY - JOUR ID - 21543 TI - Estimation of general parameters under stratified adaptive cluster sampling based on dual use of auxiliary information JO - Scientia Iranica JA - SCI LA - en SN - 1026-3098 AU - Younis, F. AU - Shabbir, J. AD - Department of Statistics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 1780 EP - 1801 KW - Adaptive cluster sampling KW - mean KW - Variance KW - difference estimator KW - stratification KW - Efficiency DO - 10.24200/sci.2019.52515.2753 N2 - Auxiliary information is mostly used together with study variable to enhanceefficiency of estimators for population mean, total and variance. Thompsonintroduced adaptive cluster sampling as an appropriate sampling scheme forrare and clustered populations. In present article, difference-type anddifference-cum-exponential-ratio-type estimators are presented utilizing twoauxiliary variables for estimation of general parameter under stratifiedadaptive cluster sampling. Proposed estimators utilize auxiliary informationin terms of ranks, variances and means of auxiliary variables in $h^{th}$stratum. Expressions for bias and mean square error of proposed estimatorsare derived using first order of approximation. Numerical study is conductedto evaluate the performance of proposed estimators. UR - https://scientiairanica.sharif.edu/article_21543.html L1 - https://scientiairanica.sharif.edu/article_21543_29918949cb597e7e14eedd8e8c1951b2.pdf ER -