Introduction to Variance Estimation
We live in the information age. Statistical surveys are used every day to determine or evaluate public policy and to make important business decisions. Correct methods for computing the precision of the survey data and for making inferences to the target
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Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences Advisors: S.E. Fienberg
W.J. van der Linden
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Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences Brennan: Generalizability Theory. DeBoeck/Wilson: Explanatory Item Response Models: A Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Approach. Devlin/Fienberg/Resnick/Roeder: Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve. Finkelstein/Levin: Statistics for Lawyers, Second Edition. Gastwirth: Statistical Science in the Courtroom. Handcock/Morris: Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences. Johnson/Albert: Ordinal Data Modeling. Kolen/Brennan: Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking: Methods and Practices, Second Edition. Longford: Missing Data and Small-Area Estimation: Modern Analytical Equipment for the Survey Statistician. Morton/Rolph: Public Policy and Statistics: Case Studies from RAND. van der Linden: Linear Models for Optimal Test Design. von Davier/Carstensen: Multivariate and Mixture Distribution Rasch Models. von Davier/Holland/Thayer: The Kernel Method of Test Equating. Wolter: Introduction to Variance Estimation, Second Edition. Zeisel/Kaye: Prove It with Figures: Empirical Methods in Law and Litigation.
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Kirk M. Wolter
Introduction to Variance Estimation Second Edition
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Kirk M. Wolter NORC and University of Chicago 55 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Series Editors: Stephen E. Fienberg Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213–3890 USA
Wim J. van der Linden Department of Measurement and Data Analysis Faculty of Behavioral Sciences University of Twente 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006927793 ISBN-10: 0-387-32917-X ISBN-13: 978-0387-32917-8
e-ISBN-10: 0-387-35099-3 e-ISBN-13: 978-0387-35099-8
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Preface to the Second Edition
It has been over 20 years since the publication of the first edition of Introduction to Variance Estimation and now 8 years since the publication of the Chinese edi
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