On the construction of imputation classes in surveys

International Statistical Review

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-43

  Haziza, David ^a   Beaumont, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification algorithm; Cross classification method; Imputation model; Non response and imputation variance; Non response bias; Non response model; Score method

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247248355     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2006.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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