Estimation for volunteer panel web surveys using propensity score adjustment and calibration adjustment

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 319-343

  Lee, Sunghee ^a,d,e   Valliant, Richard ^b,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UCLA Department of Biostatistics   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonprobability sampling; Post survey adjustment; Web surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949099122     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124108329643     Document Type: Article

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