Assessing Variability Due to Race Bridging: Application to Census Counts and Vital Rates for the Year 2000

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 464, 2003, Pages 818-828

  Schenker, Nathaniel ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Linearization; Missing data; Multiple imputation; Taylor series; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142301700     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503000000756     Document Type: Review

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