1. Introduction
The auxiliary information associated with an auxiliary variable X that is correlated with the variable of interest Y can
be employed to increase the efficiency of estimators. The most commonly used auxiliary information is the mean of the
auxiliary variable. However, other auxiliary information associated with the variable X such as the median, coefficient of
variation or correlation coefficient can be used to improve the efficiency of the estimators. Upadhyaya and Singh (1999)
suggested two ratio-type estimators for when the coefficient of variation and the coefficient of kurtosis of the auxiliary
variable are available. Srivastava and Jhajj (1981) suggested a class of estimators of the population mean assuming that the
mean and the variance are known.
The usual SRS ratio estimator of the population mean from a sample of size n is given by