Abstract:Median as a measure of location gives a more robust estimate than the mean when dealing with heavy tailed or skewed distributions. It can also be used in cases of qualitative variables and open end intervals. Calibration, an approach that adjusts the original design weight by incorporating auxiliary information is employed using the chi square distance measure on a ratio median estimator under stratified random sampling to propose some estimators of population median. These proposed estimators are: the regress… Show more
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