Detecting and Treating Verified Influential Values in a Monthly Retail Trade Survey

Detecting and Treating Verified Influential Values in a Monthly Retail Trade Survey

In survey data, an observation is considered influential if it is reported correctly and its weighted contribution has an excessive effect on a key estimate, such as an estimate of total or change. In previous research with data from the U.S. Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS), two methods, Clark Wi...

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Main Authors: Mulry Mary H., Oliver Broderick E., Kaputa Stephen J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Official Statistics
Subjects:
outlier
winsorization
m-estimation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0045

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