Degrees of freedom approximations and rules-of-thumb

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 585-602

  Valliant, Richard ^a   Rust, Keith F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex samples; Kurtosis; Linearization variance estimator; Nonlinear estimators; Skewness; Variance of variance estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651444222     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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