Calibration estimation using empirical likelihood in survey sampling

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-157

  Kim, Jae Kwang ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized regression estimator; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator; Optimal regression estimator; Weighting procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549141155     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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