¹Quaid-i-Azam University, Department of Statistics, Islamabad, Pakistan. Professor. Email: javidshabbir@gmail.com
²The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Greensboro, United States. Professor. Email: sngupta@uncg.edu

Recently a new generalized estimator for population variance using information on the auxiliary variable has been introduced by Asghar et al. (2014). In that paper there was some inaccuracy in the bias and MSE expressions. In this paper, we provide the correct expressions for bias and MSE of the Asghar et al. (2014) estimator, up to the first order of approximation. We also propose a new generalized exponential type estimator for population variance which performs better than the existing estimators. Four data sets are used for numerical comparison of efficiencies.

Recientemente, un nuevo estimador generalizado de varianza de la población utilizando información sobre la variable auxiliar ha sido introducida por Asghar et al. (2014). En ese documento había alguna inexactitud en las expresiones de sesgo y ECM. En este trabajo, proporcionamos las expresiones correctas de sesgo y ECM de Asghar et al. (2014) hasta el primer orden de aproximación. También proponemos un nuevo estimador tipo exponencial generalizado de la varianza de la población que se comporta mejor que los estimadores existentes. Cuatro conjuntos de datos se utilizan para la comparación numérica de la eficiencia.

Palabras clave: error cuadrático medio, sesgo, variable auxiliar, varianza, eficiencia.

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