Developing Calibration Weights and Standard-Error Estimates for a Survey of Drug-Related Emergency-Department Visits

This article describes a two-step calibration-weighting scheme for a stratified simple random sample of hospital emergency departments. The first step adjusts for unit nonresponse. The second increases the statistical efficiency of most estimators of interest. Both use a measure of emergency-departm...

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Main Authors: Kott Phillip S., Day C. Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-09-01
Series:Journal of Official Statistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0032