Modified maximum likelihood estimators using ranked set sampling

Balci S., Akkaya A., Ulgen B. E.

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS, cilt.238, ss.171-179, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 238
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.cam.2012.08.030
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.171-179
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Order statistics, Modified maximum likelihood, Ranked set sampling, ROBUST ESTIMATION, PARAMETERS
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The closed-form maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of population mean and variance under ranked set sampling (RSS) do not exist since the likelihood equations involve nonlinear functions and have usually no explicit solutions. We derive modified maximum likelihood (MML) estimators for the population mean and variance under RSS and show that they are considerably more efficient than RSS estimators. Furthermore, we suggest two new estimators for the unknown parameters using two modified ranked set sampling methods and show that these methods make the variances of both MML and RSS estimators smaller. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.