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The Rao, Hartley and Cochran Scheme with Dubious Random Nonresponse in Survey Sampling

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In the present investigation, we consider the problem of estimating a population total using the well known Rao, Hartley and Cochran (J R Stat Soc Ser B 24:482–491, 1962), say RHC scheme, in the presence of dubious random nonresponse. The proposed estimator is compared to the usual estimators of the population total in the presence of random nonresponse. A new idea, “Dubious Random Non-response (DRN)” through transformations on the response probabilities, is introduced and studied.

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  1. Department of Statistics and O.R., University of Granada, Avd. Fuentenueva s/n, Granada, Spain

    María del Mar Rueda & Antonio Arcos

  2. Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, P.Bag UB 00705, Gaborone, Botswana

    Raghunath Arnab*

  3. Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, 78363, USA

    Sarjinder Singh

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Correspondence to Raghunath Arnab*.

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del Mar Rueda, M., Arcos, A., Arnab*, R. et al. The Rao, Hartley and Cochran Scheme with Dubious Random Nonresponse in Survey Sampling. Sankhya B 76, 317–333 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13571-013-0072-5

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