Asymptotic sampling distribution of inverse coe?cient of variation and its applications: revisited

  • Authors

    • Ahmed N. Albatineh Florida International University
    • B.M Golam Kibria Florida International University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    • Bashar Zogheib American University of Kuwait Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
    2014-01-15
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijasp.v2i1.1475

  • Abstract

    Sharma and Krishna (1994) derived mathematically an appealing asymptotic confidence interval for the population signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this paper, an evaluation of the performance of this interval using monte carlo simulations using randomly generated data from normal, log-normal, $\chi^2$, Gamma, and Weibull distributions three of which are discussed in Sharma and Krishna (1994). Simulations revealed that its performance, as measured by coverage probability, is totally dependent on the amount of noise introduced. A proposal for using ranked set sampling (RSS) instead of simple random sampling (SRS) improved its performance. It is recommended against using this confidence interval for data from a log-normal distribution. Moreover, this interval performs poorly in all other distributions unless the SNR is around one.

    Keywords: Signal-to-noise ratio, coefficient of variation, sampling distribution, confidence interval, ranked set sample, simple random sample.

     

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  • Received date: 2013-11-06

    Accepted date: 2013-12-05

    Published date: 2014-01-15