Alleviating linear ecological bias and optimal design with subsample data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 179-202

  Glynn, Adam N ^a   Wakefield, Jon ^b   Handcock, Mark S ^b   Richardson, Thomas S ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining information; Ecological bias; Returns to education; Sample design; Within area confounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149133043     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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