A New Concept for Tuning Design Weights in Survey Sampling: Jackknifing in Theory and Practice

A New Concept for Tuning Design Weights in Survey Sampling: Jackknifing in Theory and Practice introduces the new concept of tuning design weights in survey sampling by presenting three concepts: calibration, jackknifing, and imputing where needed. This new methodology allows survey statisticians to develop statistical software for analyzing data in a more precisely and friendly way than with existing techniques.

1 Problem of Estimation

2 Tuning of Jackknife Estimator

3 Model Assisted Tuning of Estimators

4 Tuned Estimators of Finite Population Variance

5 Tuned Estimators of Finite Population Correlation Coefficient

6 Tuning of Multi-Character Survey Estimators

7 Tuning of the Horvitz-Thompson Estimator

8 Tuning in Stratified Sampling

9 Tuning using Multiauxiliary Information

10 A Brief Review of Related Work

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Handy Subject Index

Author Index