2 papers
stat.ME2021
Design-based composite estimation rediscovered
Andrius Čiginas
Small area estimation methods are used in surveys, where sample sizes are too small to get reliable direct estimates of parameters in some population domains. We consider design-ba…
math.ST2014
Gini's mean difference and variance as measures of finite populations scales
Andrius Čiginas, Dalius Pumputis
We consider Gini's mean difference statistic as an alternative to the empirical variance in the settings of finite populations where simple random samples are drawn without replace…