An information-theoretic approach to the effective usage of auxiliary information from survey data

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 499-509

  Wu, Changchun ^a   Zhang, Runchu ^b  

^a JIAXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration; Cross entropy; Empirical likelihood; Entropy; Generalized regression estimator; Jackknife; Optimal regression estimator

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CROSS ENTROPY; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD; GENERALIZED REGRESSION ESTIMATORS; OPTIMAL REGRESSION ESTIMATORS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748577402     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-005-0013-9     Document Type: Review

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