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Using the predictive approach advocated by Basu (1971), we consider two almost unbiased ratio estimators of the population mean and study their efficiencies under a linear model.
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Sahoo, J., Sahoo, L.N. A note on the efficiencies of two almost unbiased predictive ratio estimators. Stat Papers 36, 273–278 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02926040
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