Table 2. The relative root mean square error of the new ratio estimators and associated variance estimators with population size N = 300.
Response rate (%) | n | The relative root mean square error of the proposed estimators | The relative root mean square error of the variance estimators | ||||||
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is known | is unknown | is known | is unknown | ||||||
MAR | MCAR | MAR | MCAR | MAR | MCAR | MAR | MCAR | ||
60 | 10 | 0.1166 | 0.1196 | 0.1169 | 0.1198 | 0.6605 | 0.6902 | 2.2661 | 2.7669 |
20 | 0.1038 | 0.1056 | 0.1049 | 0.1067 | 0.5423 | 0.5452 | 1.3307 | 1.3510 | |
60 | 0.0624 | 0.0626 | 0.0631 | 0.0634 | 0.2420 | 0.2489 | 0.3666 | 0.4646 | |
120 | 0.0478 | 0.0479 | 0.0483 | 0.0485 | 0.1548 | 0.1829 | 0.2500 | 0.2634 | |
80 | 10 | 0.0949 | 0.0962 | 0.0957 | 0.0968 | 0.4347 | 0.4533 | 2.2106 | 2.5923 |
20 | 0.0863 | 0.0869 | 0.0869 | 0.0871 | 0.3722 | 0.3736 | 1.3123 | 1.3319 | |
60 | 0.0480 | 0.0484 | 0.0481 | 0.0485 | 0.2084 | 0.2150 | 0.3628 | 0.4144 | |
120 | 0.0298 | 0.0301 | 0.0298 | 0.0303 | 0.1392 | 0.1514 | 0.2164 | 0.2325 |