Non-response adjustment of survey estimates based on auxiliary variables subject to error

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-231

  West, Brady T ^a   Little, Roderick J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variables; Measurement error; Non ignorable missing data; Non response adjustment of survey estimates; Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung (labour market and social security) survey; Pattern mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874193558     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2012.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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