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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830446503321

Autore

D'Orazio Marcello

Titolo

Statistical matching [[electronic resource] ] : theory and practice / / Marcello D'Orazio, Marco Di Zio and Mauro Scanu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2006

ISBN

1-280-41107-4

9786610411078

0-470-02355-4

0-470-02354-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Wiley series in survey methodology

Classificazione

31.73

Altri autori (Persone)

Di ZioMarco

ScanuMauro

Disciplina

519.5

Soggetti

Statistical matching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The statistical matching problem -- The conditional independence assumption -- Auxiliary information -- Uncertainty in statistical matching -- Statistical matching and finite populations -- Issues in preparing for statistical matching -- Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

There is more statistical data produced in today's modern society than ever before. This data is analysed and cross-referenced for innumerable reasons. However, many data sets have no shared element and are harder to combine and therefore obtain any meaningful inference from. Statistical matching allows just that; it is the art of combining information from different sources (particularly sample surveys) that contain no common unit. In response to modern influxes of data, it is an area of rapidly growing interest and complexity. Statistical Matching: Theory and Practice introduces the b