Combination of evidence from multiple administrative data sources: Quality assessment of the Austrian register-based census 2011

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-33

  Berka, Christopher ^a   Humer, Stefan ^a   Moser, Mathias ^a   Lenk, Manuela ^b   Rechta, Henrik ^b   Schwerer, Eliane ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b Statistics Austria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dempster; Fuzzy logic; Shafer theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855849192     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2011.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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