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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

13. Basic Steps in Weighting

Authors : Richard Valliant, Jill A. Dever, Frauke Kreuter

Published in: Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

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Abstract

Survey weights are a key component to producing population estimates.

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See Sect.​ 4.​1 for a discussion of unbiased and consistent estimates.
 
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Metadata
Title
Basic Steps in Weighting
Authors
Richard Valliant
Jill A. Dever
Frauke Kreuter
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-6448-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-6449-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6449-5_13

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