Richard Valliant, Jill A. Dever

Survey Weights

A Step-by-step Guide to Calculation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Survey Weights: A Step-by-Step Guide to Calculation is the first guide geared towards Stata users that systematically covers the major steps taken in creating survey weights. These weights are used to project a sample to some larger population and can be computed for either probability or nonprobability samples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stata Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 188mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781597182607
• ISBN-10: 1597182605
• Artikelnr.: 52010231

Autorenporträt

Richard Valliant, PhD, is a research professor emeritus at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan and at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Jill A. Dever, PhD, is a senior research statistician/director at RTI International in Washington, D.C. and assistant research professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview of weighting. Initial steps in weighting probability samples.
Adjustments for nonresponse. Calibration and other uses of auxiliary data
in weighting. Use of weights in variance estimation. Nonprobability
samples. Weighting for some special cases. Quality of survey weights.