A note on robust variance estimation for cluster-correlated data

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 645-646

  Williams, Rick L ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Between cluster variance estimator

Indexed keywords

BETWEEN-CLUSTER VARIANCE ESTIMATOR; BETWEEN-CLUSTER VARIANCES; CORRELATED DATA; SIMPLE++; SURVEY RESEARCH; UNEQUAL PROBABILITY SAMPLING; VARIANCE ESTIMATION; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SHORT SURVEY; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033918632     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00645.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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