As an estimator of an estimable parameter, we introduce a new statistic which is given by a linear combination of U-statistics. This statistic is identical with the V-statistic for the kernel of degree 1 or 2. For the kernel of degree larger than 2, the new statistic and the V-statistic have no difference in the mean of the second order efficiency. We shall compare these two statistics by the fourth order efficiency and give two examples.