An Admissible Estimator for The Variance of A Finite Population

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt

Abstract

Following a line of argument of Basu (1971), an estimator for the population variance is proposed. This estimator is shown to be admissible using the technique given by Meeden and Ghosh (1984). It is also shown that this estimator reduces to an estimator given by Chosh and Meeden (1983).

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