Downweighting influential clusters in surveys: Application to the 1990 post enumeration survey

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 455, 2001, Pages 858-869

  Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a   Schenker, Nathaniel ^b   Belin, Thomas R ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Census undercount; Extreme weights; Influence; M estimation; Outliers; Robustness; T distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442280687     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753208889     Document Type: Article

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