In this paper we have proposed an efficient ratio-type exponential estimator for estimating the population mean of the study variable, by incorporating two auxiliary variables in twophase (double) sampling. The bias and the mean square error of the proposed estimator have been obtained up to the...

Abstract While the HVTN 505 trial showed no overall efficacy of the tested vaccine to prevent HIV infection over placebo, markers measuring immune response to vaccination were strongly correlated with infection. This finding generated the hypothesis that some marker-defined vaccinated subgroups...

Designing an efficient large-area survey is a challenge, especially in environmental science when many populations are rare and clustered. Adaptive and unequal probability sampling designs are appealing when populations are rare and clustered because survey effort can be targeted to subareas of...

The purpose of editing is to correct erroneous entries in the dataset and assure the quality of data. It takes a lot of resources to correct all errors, so editing procedures where only a subset of errors to be corrected are sought after. Correcting only a subset of all errors will influence the...