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More exactly, do you know of a case where there are repeated, continuous data, sample surveys, perhaps monthly, and an occasional census survey on the same data items, perhaps annually, likely...
05 June 2022 1,308 12 View
For example, for the classical ratio estimator, the variance of the slope, b, is sigma squared for the random factors of the estimated residuals divided by the sum of the x-values associated with...
01 May 2020 5,295 3 View
What are the various statistical software systems available which will allow you to enter regression weight, w, in weighted least squares (WLS) regression, in addition to SAS? . Thank you to...
14 October 2019 4,523 13 View
By WLS we mean weighted least squares regression. On page 111 in Brewer, KRW (2002), Combined survey sampling inference: Weighing Basu's elephants, Arnold: London and Oxford University Press, he...
28 April 2018 7,489 5 View
I am interested in historical references such as the examples below. This question is with regard to inference from all surveys, but especially for establishment surveys (businesses, farms,...
26 June 2016 3,273 4 View
Calibration weights have been studied extensively as adjusted survey weights which take auxiliary data into account. A simple case of auxiliary data with linear regression through the origin is...
04 June 2016 764 3 View
At the following link, on the first page, you will see a categorization of heteroscedasticity into that which naturally should often be expected due to population member size differences, and that...
22 December 2015 1,080 8 View
Are omitted variables a subset of lurking variables, where the word "omitted" is only used when bias is the focus? Or perhaps there is some other matter of context? I find I am not clear on the...
06 December 2015 423 3 View
For sample size needs for inference for continuous data or for proportions, William Cochran - Cochran, W.G(1977), Sampling Techniques, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons - noted that we need...
20 November 2015 5,870 5 View
Fellow RGers: A recent survey statistics and methodology journal had an article on the use of splines, and as one example they used data with which I am very familiar. In that case, however, I...
06 November 2015 4,891 10 View
This, to me, is a huge mistake, as a cross sectional survey is designed to estimate what is currently happening. A time series forecast for that period can incorporate seasonality, but not a new...
07 May 2015 7,491 3 View
In finite population survey statistics, for survey methodology and data analysis, data are stratified to reduce overall variance. But sometimes publishing the individual categories becomes...
10 February 2015 9,903 16 View
Specific examples are of interest, as well as general approaches. As examples re data editing for continuous data for establishment surveys, the first link below leads to some slides for a...
03 February 2015 6,551 46 View
This is a question for philosophical discussion: I saw the interesting example at the link below (excerpt from East Tennessee State University on Freedman, et.al.). It is meant to be a simple...
24 November 2014 9,365 21 View
An updated sample selection is being determined for one of our most comprehensive energy establishment surveys, to more efficient estimate for the current population, as the sample has not been...
26 April 2014 7,719 2 View
I have searched for such establishment survey data so that I can try applying methodology to them for which I previously led development on official energy statistics. The idea is to impute...
01 January 1970 4,914 0 View
A number of people have asked on ResearchGate about acceptable response rates and others have asked about using nonprobability sampling, perhaps without knowing that these issues are highly...
01 January 1970 5,045 3 View
In the latest approaches to trying to infer from nonprobability samples, multiple covariates are encouraged. For example, see...
01 January 1970 307 11 View
