Algorithms for constructing combined strata variance estimators

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 476, 2006, Pages 1680-1692

  Lu, Wilson W ^a   Brick, J Michael ^b   Sitter, Randy R ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Degrees of freedom; Domain estimation; Stratified multistage sampling; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846077706     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000267     Document Type: Article

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