A New Estimator of Population Mean in Stratified Sampling

Kadilar and Cingi (2005 Kadilar , C. , Cingi , H. ( 2005 ). A new ratio estimator in stratified sampling . Comm. Statist. Theory Meth. 34 : 1 – 6 . [CSA] [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) have suggested a new ratio estimator in stratified sampling. The efficiency of this estimator is compared with the traditional combined ratio estimator on the basis of mean square error (MSE). We propose another estimator by utilizing a simple transformation introduced by Bedi (1996 Bedi , P. K. ( 1996 ). Efficient utilization of auxiliary information at estimation stage . Biomet. J. 38 ( 8 ): 973 – 976 . [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). The proposed estimator is found to be more efficient than the traditional combined ratio estimator as well as the Kadilar and Cingi (2005 Kadilar , C. , Cingi , H. ( 2005 ). A new ratio estimator in stratified sampling . Comm. Statist. Theory Meth. 34 : 1 – 6 . [CSA] [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) ratio estimator.