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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf16303</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2005.103</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Estimation of a Ratio in the Finite Population</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Krapavickaitė</surname><given-names>Danutė</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:krapav@ktl.mii.lt">krapav@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Plikusas</surname><given-names>Aleksandras</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:plikusas@ktl.mii.lt">plikusas@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 08663 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2005</year></pub-date><volume>16</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>347</fpage><lpage>364</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>11</month><year>2004</year></date></history><abstract><p>Estimation of the ratio of two totals is considered, when a probability sample from the finite population is available. Four estimators of the ratio are examined. The first one – called “simple” – is the ratio of the Horvitz–Thompson estimators of totals; the second – the ratio of two ratio estimators of totals; the third one – the ratio of two regression estimators of totals. The fourth one is a calibrated estimator of the ratio. The variances of these estimators are compared. The properties of such estimators of the ratio are studied. The simulation results are presented.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>finite population</kwd><kwd>probability sample</kwd><kwd>ratio of two totals</kwd><kwd>calibrated estimator</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>