Nonresponse adjustments with misspecified models in stratified designs

Survey Methodology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 161-177

  Cervantes, Ismael Flores ^a   Brick, J Michael ^a  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonresponse; Sampling weights; Stratification; Weighting classes reweighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975698834     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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