Contributions to Sampling Statistics

✍ Scribed by Fulvia Mecatti, Pier Luigi Conti, Maria Giovanna Ranalli (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Series: Contributions to Statistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the ITACOSM 2013 Conference, held in Milan in June 2013. It is intended as an international forum of scientific discussion on the developments of theory and application of survey sampling methodologies and applications in human and natural sciences. The book gathers research papers carefully selected from both invited and contributed sessions of the conference. The whole book appears to be a relevant contribution to various key aspects of sampling methodology and techniques; it deals with some hot topics in sampling theory, such as calibration, quantile-regression and multiple frame surveys and with innovative methodologies in important topics of both sampling theory and applications. Contributions cut across current sampling methodologies such as interval estimation for complex samples, randomized responses, bootstrap, weighting, modeling, imputation, small area estimation and effective use of auxiliary information; applications cover a wide and enlarging range of subjects in official household surveys, Bayesian networks, auditing, business and economic surveys, geostatistics and agricultural statistics. The book is an updated, high level reference survey addressed to researchers, professionals and practitioners in many fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Calibration Weighting When Model and Calibration Variables Can Differ....Pages 1-18
M-Quantile Small Area Models for Measuring Poverty at a Local Level....Pages 19-33
Use of Zero Functions for Combining Information from Multiple Frames....Pages 35-51
The Analysis of Survey Data Using the Bootstrap....Pages 53-63
Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals: An Application to the EU-SILC Household Surveys....Pages 65-84
Responsive Design for Economic Data in Mixed-Mode Panels....Pages 85-101
Comparing the Efficiency of Sample Plans for Symmetric and Non-symmetric Distributions in Auditing....Pages 103-118
Implementing the First ISTAT Survey of Homeless Population by Indirect Sampling and Weight Sharing Method....Pages 119-138
Modelling Measurement Errors by Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks: An Application to 2008 SHIW....Pages 139-150
Sampling Theory and Geostatistics: A Way of Reconciliation....Pages 151-165
Optimal Regression Estimator for Stratified Two-Stage Sampling....Pages 167-177
Spatial Sampling for Agricultural Data....Pages 179-198
A Multi-proportion Randomized Response Model Using the Inverse Sampling....Pages 199-218
A Modified Extended Delete a Group Jackknife Variance Estimator Under Random Hot Deck Imputation in Business Surveys....Pages 219-233

✦ Subjects

Actuarial Sciences; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Probability