ESTIMATING VARIOUS MEASURES IN NORMAL POPULATION THROUGH A SINGLE CLASS OF ESTIMATORS

This article coined a general class of estimators for various measures in normal population when some' a priori' or guessed value of standard deviation a is available in addition to sample information. The class of estimators is primarily defined for a function of standard deviation. An unbiased estimator and the minimum mean squared error estimator are worked out and the suggested class of estimators is compared with these classical estimators. Numerical computations in terms of percent relative efficiency and absolute relative bias established the merits of the proposed class of estimators especially for small samples. Simulation study confirms the excellence of the proposed class of estimators. The beauty of this article lies in estimation of various measures like standard deviation, variance, Fisher information, precision of sample mean, process capability index <TEX>$C_{p}$</TEX>, fourth moment about mean, mean deviation about mean etc. as particular cases of the proposed class of estimators.