Survey estimates by calibration on complex auxiliary information

International Statistical Review

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-147

  Estevao, Victor M ^a   Särndal, Carl Erik ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative registers; Automated linearization; Calibrated weights; Design based inference; Domains of interest; Ecological fallacy; Integrated weighting; Official statistics production; Two phase sampling; Two stage sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748324462     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2006.tb00165.x     Document Type: Review

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