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Observations of sampling are often subject to rounding, but are modeled as though they were unrounded. This paper examines the impact of rounding errors on parameter estimation with multi-layer ranked set sampling. It shows that the rounding errors seriously distort the behavior of covariance matrix estimate, and lead to inconsistent estimation. Taking this into account, we present a new approach to implement the estimation for this model, and further establish the strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators. Simulation experiments show that our estimates based on rounded multi-layer ranked set sampling are always more efficient than those based on rounded simple random sampling.
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The second author is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10871036)
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Li, W.M., Bai, Z.D. Rounded data analysis based on multi-layer ranked set sampling. Acta. Math. Sin.-English Ser. 27, 2507–2518 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-011-8296-7
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