Optimum Stratification Using Dynamic Programming with a Mixture of Ratio and Product Estimators under Super Population Model

Table 3

Total variance obtained by different methods.

L	Cum method	Geometric method	Lavallee−Hidiroglou method	Khan et al. [28]	Proposed method
2	0.786	0.82248	1.05376	0.59128	0.41944
3	0.634	0.66992	0.5908	0.22872	0.14256
4	0.48392	0.60744	0.55664	0.16384	0.0828
5	0.38696	0.51336	0.4908	0.06688	0.06344
6	0.31792	0.44296	0.48288	0.02872	0.01904