Simulation of close-to-reality population data for household surveys with application to EU-SILC

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-407

  Alfons, Andreas ^a   Kraft, Stefan ^a,b   Templ, Matthias ^a,c   Filzmoser, Peter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Institute for Quantitative Asset Management (IQAM)   (Austria)

^c Methods Unit   (Austria)

Author keywords

EU SILC; Simulation; Survey statistics; Synthetic data

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855132924     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-011-0163-2     Document Type: Article

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