On the use of predictive approach in estimation of population mean under successive sampling scheme

Abstract

In the present article, we focus attention on the implementation of predictive approach devised by D. Basu (1971) in two-occasion successive sampling scheme. In this study one regression-type estimator of a finite population mean with the help of information on one auxiliary variable has been developed under two-occasion successive sampling using predictive approach. The pre-eminence of the suggested methodology has been established over the contemporary ones through empirical studies carried over a real population and artificially generated population datasets, which presents the soundness and usefulness of the suggested estimator in practice. Suitable recommendations to the survey statisticians are also made.