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Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys

R. L. Chambers, D. G. Steel, Suojin Wang, and A. H. Welsh
Publisher: 
Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publication Date: 
2012
Number of Pages: 
375
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability 125
Price: 
79.95
ISBN: 
9781584886327
Category: 
Monograph
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Introduction
Nature and role of sample surveys
Sample designs
Survey data, estimation and analysis
Why analysts of survey data should be interested in maximum likelihood estimation
Why statisticians should be interested in the analysis of survey data
A sample survey example
Maximum likelihood estimation for infinite populations
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Maximum likelihood theory for sample surveys
Introduction
Maximum likelihood using survey data
Illustrative examples with complete response
Dealing with nonresponse
Illustrative examples with nonresponse
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Alternative likelihood-based methods for sample survey data
Introduction
Pseudo-likelihood
Sample likelihood
Analytic comparisons of maximum likelihood, pseudolikelihood and sample likelihood estimation
The role of sample inclusion probabilities in analytic analysis
Bayesian analysis
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Populations with independent units
Introduction
The score and information functions for independent units
Bivariate Gaussian populations
Multivariate Gaussian populations
Non-Gaussian auxiliary variables
Stratified populations
Multinomial populations
Heterogeneous multinomial logistic populations
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Regression models
Introduction
A Gaussian example
Parameterization in the Gaussian model
Other methods of estimation
Non-Gaussian models
Different auxiliary variable distributions
Generalized linear models
Semiparametric and nonparametric methods
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Clustered populations
Introduction
A Gaussian group dependent model
A Gaussian group dependent regression model
Extending the Gaussian group dependent regression model
Binary group dependent models
Grouping models
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Informative nonresponse
Introduction
Nonresponse in innovation surveys
Regression with item nonresponse
Regression with arbitrary nonresponse
Imputation versus estimation
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Maximum likelihood in other complicated situations
Introduction
Likelihood analysis under informative selection
Secondary analysis of sample survey data
Combining summary population information with likelihood analysis
Likelihood analysis with probabilistically linked data
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