Sample survey calibration : an informational-theoretic perspective / Martin Wittenberg.

"We show that the pseudo empirical maximum likelihood estimator can be recast as a calibration estimator. The process of estimating the probabilities pk of the distribution function can be done also in a maximum entropy framework. We suggest that a minimum cross-entropy estimator has attractive theo...

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Main Author:	Wittenberg, Martin
Corporate Author:	University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Language:	English
Published:	Cape Town : Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, UCT, [2009], ©2009.
Series:	Saldru working paper ; [new ser.], no. 41.
Subjects:	Surveys > Statistical methods. Sampling (Statistics)
Physical Description:	6 pages ; 21 cm. Also issued online.
Format:	Book