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The Impact of Sampling Designs on Small Area Estimates for Business Data

Journal of Official Statistics
Volume 30 (2014): Issue 4 (December 2014)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0046 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
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Language: English
Page range: 749 - 771
Submitted on: Jan 1, 2013
Accepted on: Jun 1, 2014
Published on: Dec 11, 2014
Published by: Sciendo
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Keywords:
Nonignorable sampling designs,
MSE estimation,
confidence interval coverage
Related subjects:
Mathematics,
Probability and statistics

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