A Class of Almost Unbiased Estimators for Finite Populations Mean Using Two Auxiliary Variables

Abstract

For estimating finite population mean -Y0 of study character y0, a class of almost unbiased estimators applying jackknife technique envisaged by Quenouille (1956) is derived. Optimum unbiased estimator (OUE) is also investigated with its variance formula. An empirical study is carried out to demonstrate the performance of the constructed estimator over the usual unbiased estimator, Srivastava (1965), Singh (1967), Singh and Biradar (1992), Tracy, Singh, and Singh (1996) and other almost unbiased estimators.