Estimation of population mean of study variable Y suffers loss of precision in the presence of high variation in the data set. The use of auxiliary information incorporated in construction of an estimator under Rank set sampling scheme results in efficient estimation of population mean. In this paper, we propose an efficient generalized family of estimators to estimate finite population mean of study variable under ranked set sampling utilizing information on an auxiliary variable. Bias and Mean Square Error (MSE) of the proposed generalized family of estimators are derived. The conditions of efficiency of proposed generalized family of estimators from competitor estimators are also derived. The applications of estimator are discussed using simulation study and real-life data sets for comparisons of efficiency. It is concluded that when correlation between study and auxiliary variables increases, the proposed generalized family of estimators proves to be the efficient estimator of population mean of the study variable.

Estimation of population mean of study variable Y suffers loss of precision in the presence of high variation in the data set. The use of auxiliary information incorporated in construction of an estimator under ranked set sampling scheme results in efficient estimation of population mean. In this paper, we propose an efficient generalized chain regression-cum-chain ratio type estimator to estimate finite population mean of study variable under stratified extreme-cum-median ranked set sampling utilizing information on two auxiliary variables. Mean square error (MSE) of the proposed generalized estimator is derived up to first order of approximation. The applications of the proposed estimator under symmetrical and asymmetrical probability distributions are discussed using simulation study and real-life data set for comparisons of efficiency. It is concluded that the proposed generalized estimator performs efficiently as compared to some existing estimators. It is also observed that the efficiency of the proposed estimator is directly proportional to the correlations between the study variable and its auxiliary variables.

In this paper, we describe two visualization tools developed on the DAP-510, a SIMD machine having 1024 processors. The two tools are (i) the interactive visualization t o o l , and (ii) the display tool. The interactive visualization tool allows the user to steer the course of computation by interactively modifying its parameters based on the visual feedback. The display tool transforms the numeric data into a visual form. It also gives the user capability to manipulate the visual representation. In the implementation of these tools we exploit the parallel features of DAP-510. These tools are utilized for designing and understanding the neural networks. However, it is worth mentioning that these tools are general in nature and can easily interact with other parallel computa, tion processes.

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