Multi-level modelling under informative sampling

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 943-959

  Pfeffermann, Danny ^a   Da Silva Moura, Fernando Antonio ^b   Do Nascimento Silva, Pedro Luis ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Credibility interval; Full likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood estimation; Probability weighting; Small area estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845784701     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.4.943     Document Type: Article

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