Improving survey-weighted least squares regression

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-126

  Magee, Lonnie ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex survey data; Heteroscedasticity; Quasi Aitken estimation; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042961872     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00112     Document Type: Article

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