Taylor linearization sampling errors and design effects for poverty measures and other complex statistics

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1549-1576

  Verma, Vijay ^a   Betti, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inequality; JRR; Poverty; Taylor linearization; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958793067     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.515674     Document Type: Article

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