Estimation of the means of the bivariate normal using moving extreme ranked set sampling with concomitant variable

Statistical Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-195

  Al Saleh, Mohammad Fraiwan ^a   Al Ananbeh, Ahmad Mohammad ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Bivariate Normal Distribution; Concomitant Variable; Elliptic Distributions; Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling; Ranked Set Sampling; Robustness; Simple Random Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847354258     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-006-0325-8     Document Type: Article

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