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Do replicate weight, when the are available, supersede all the design-based procedures and analysis?
If the agency that conducted a survey and releases micro data at the individual or household level also supplies replicate weights for that sample, do these weights completely supercede any need or ...
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Is it appropriate to pre-stratify and post-stratify along different delineations of the same variables in a single survey?
I am working in the context of opt-in, web-based surveys. Often the desire is for accurate population estimates, and often at a country-wide level. The standard approach at this organization is to ...
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Computing standard errors when using stratified sampling
I am trying to understand the following formula for the standard error of the population mean as estimated through stratified sampling. On the CRAN site, the formula given is $$
S_{\bar{x}_{\textit{...
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How to update survey weights after fixing strata membership/assignments?
Imagine we conduct a survey using stratified sampling, and after the survey closes, we find out that we had misclassified some of the respondents. They actually belong to different strata than we had ...
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Sample Size determination at coutry level or states levels
A country is stratified into states. A researchers wants to carry out a survey with a main requirement of state level data representation. I wonder if sample size should be determine using country ...
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How to determine sample weights, when the prevalence in the population is based on percentages
The central question is: How to do I determine the weights, when prevalence in the population is expressed as percentages?
I have posted this related question on Stack Overflow: According to the ...
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Benefit of scaling survey design weights
In the european social survey the design weights are scaled to the sample size (see quote and source):
As with the design weights also the post-stratification weights are scaled to the sample size, ...
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How calculate Gini coefficient (unbiased) and Lorenz Curve with stratified sample?
I'm working with a stratified sample by minimum variance method with 3 levels that becomes at 1176 stratum. The sample comes from finite population of income taxes data.
I'm looking for how calculate ...
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calculate properly statistical moments with stratified sample data
I have problems of how to calculate properly the third and fourth order moments: my data is a stratified sampling with three strata.
The goal for me is to make a descriptive analysis: mean, variance, ...
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Reweighting sample to reflect census?
I'm working on a revision of a manuscript. I have a longitudinal cohort of adolescents that were followed throughout junior high school. One of the reviewers considers the attrition to be considerable,...
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Using post-stratification weights in R survey package
I am analyzing a dataset that has a variable for post-stratification weights. As this is a complex survey, the plan is to use the R survey package. I have been ...
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Post stratification weights and the survey package in R
I have survey data that needs to be weighted, and to help me with this task, I have access to the full joint distributions of the variables I want to use. As I understand it, I should use the ...
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