MacEachern, Steven N.; Öztürk, Ömer; Wolfe, Douglas A.; … - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 64 (2002) 2, pp. 177-188
We develop an unbiased estimator of the variance of a population based on a ranked set sample. We show that this new estimator is better than estimating the variance based on a simple random sample and more efficient than the estimator based on a ranked set sample proposed by Stokes. Also, a...