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Improving ratio-type quantile estimates in a finite population

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This paper presents a technique for improving the ratio method of estimation for finite population quantiles. The performance of this estimator with respect to others is studied theoretically and empirically, for a wide variety of real and artificial populations, and includes simple random sampling and sampling proportional to an auxiliary variable.

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Rueda, M., Arcos, A. Improving ratio-type quantile estimates in a finite population. Statistical Papers 45, 231–248 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02777225

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