Public opinion polls: The UK general election, 1992

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 535-545

  Smith, T M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Components of variancE; Design effects; Multilevel model; Quota samples; Quota sampling variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040898635     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983330     Document Type: Article

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