A nonparametric method to generate synthetic populations to adjust for complex sampling design features

Survey Methodology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-46

  Dong, Qi ^a   Elliott, Michael R ^b   Raghunathan, Trivellore E ^b  

^a NETFLIX INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian bootstrap; Inverse sampling; Posterior predictive distribution; Synthetic populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929234159     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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