The Matching Methodology: Some Statistical Properties (Lecture Notes in Statistics)

Goel, Prem K.; Ramalingam, T.

ISBN 10: 0387969705 / ISBN 13: 9780387969701

Editore: Springer, 1989

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• Titolo: The Matching Methodology: Some Statistical Properties (Lecture Notes in Statistics)
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387969705
• ISBN 13: 9780387969701
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Like New
• Tipo di libro: book

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Riassunto

Incomplete-data problems arise naturally in many instances of statistical practice. One main problem still to be resolved is the development of appropriate inference methodology from merged files if one insists on using file merging methodology.

Contenuti

1. Introduction and Summary.- 1.1 A Dichotomy of Matching Problems.- 1.2 A Paradigm.- 1.3 A General Set-up for Statistical Matching.- 1.4 The Statistical Matching Methodology.- 1.5 Constrained and Unconstrained Matching.- 1.6 Reliability of Synthetic Files.- 1.7 Summary.- 2. Merging Files of Data on Same Individuals.- 2.1 AGeneralModel.- 2.2 Notations.- 2.3 Model-based Matching Strategies.- 2.4 Repairing a Broken Random Sample.- 2.5 Reliability of Matching Strategies for Bivariate Data.- 2.6 An Optimality Property of the Matching Strategy ?*.- 2.7 Monotonicity of E(N(?*)) with respect to Dependence Parameters.- 2.8 Some Properties of Approximate Matching Strategies.- 2.9 Poisson Convergence of N(?*).- 2.10 Matching variables with independent errors model.- 3. Merging Files Of Data On Similar Individuals.- 3.1 Kadane’s Matching Strategies for Multivariate Normal Models.- 3.2 Alternatives to Statistical Matching Under Conditional Independence.- 3.3 An Empirical Evaluation of Certain Matching Strategies.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- References.- Author Index.