Modelling complex survey data with population level information: an empirical likelihood approach
Modelling complex survey data with population level information: an empirical likelihood approach
Survey data are often collected with unequal probabilities from a stratified population. In many modelling situations, the parameter of interest is a subset of a set of parameters, with the others treated as nuisance parameters. We show that in this situation the empirical likelihood ratio statistic follows a chi-squared distribution asymptotically, under stratified single and multi-stage unequal probability sampling, with negligible sampling fractions. Simulation studies show that the empirical likelihood confidence interval may achieve better coverages and has more balanced tail error rates than standard approaches, which involve variance estimation, linearization or resampling.
design-based inference, empirical likelihood, estimating equation, inclusion probability, regression parameter, unequal probability sampling
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Oguz Alper, Melike
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Berger, Yves G.
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Oguz Alper, Melike
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Berger, Yves G.
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Oguz Alper, Melike and Berger, Yves G.
(2016)
Modelling complex survey data with population level information: an empirical likelihood approach.
Biometrika, 2 (103), .
(doi:10.1093/biomet/asw014).
Abstract
Survey data are often collected with unequal probabilities from a stratified population. In many modelling situations, the parameter of interest is a subset of a set of parameters, with the others treated as nuisance parameters. We show that in this situation the empirical likelihood ratio statistic follows a chi-squared distribution asymptotically, under stratified single and multi-stage unequal probability sampling, with negligible sampling fractions. Simulation studies show that the empirical likelihood confidence interval may achieve better coverages and has more balanced tail error rates than standard approaches, which involve variance estimation, linearization or resampling.
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Accepted/In Press date: 17 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 May 2016
Keywords:
design-based inference, empirical likelihood, estimating equation, inclusion probability, regression parameter, unequal probability sampling
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URI: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/376699
ISSN: 0006-3444
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