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most citedRobust estimation for small domains in business surveys

5 citations · 9 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

stat.ME2023★ 1 cited

Generating contingency tables with fixed marginal probabilities and dependence structures described by loglinear models

Ceejay Hammond, Peter G. M. van der Heijden, Paul A. Smith

We present a method to generate contingency tables that follow loglinear models with prescribed marginal probabilities and dependence structures. We make use of (loglinear) Poisson…

stat.AP2020

Multiple system estimation using covariates having missing values and measurement error: estimating the size of the Māori population in New Zealand

Peter G. M. van der Heijden, Maarten Cruyff, Paul A. Smith +3

We investigate use of two or more linked registers, or lists, for both population size estimation and to investigate the relationship between variables appearing on all or only som…

stat.AP2020★ 5 cited

Robust estimation for small domains in business surveys

Paul A. Smith, Chiara Bocci, Nikos Tzavidis +2

Small area (or small domain) estimation is still rarely applied in business statistics, because of challenges arising from the skewness and variability of variables such as turnove…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

On estimating the size of overcoverage with the latent class model. A critique of the paper "Population Size Estimation Using Multiple Incomplete Lists with Overcoverage" by di Cecco, di Zio, Filipponi and Rocchetti (2018, JOS 34 557-572)

Peter G M van der Heijden, Paul A. Smith

We read with interest the article by di Cecco et al. (2018), but have reservations about the usefulness of the latent class model specifically for estimating overcoverage. In parti…

stat.ME2019

Linkage Free Dual System Estimation

Viktor Račinskij, Paul A. Smith, Peter G. M. van der Heijden

In this paper it is shown that under certain conditions there is a relationship between the parameter estimation of the Fellegi--Sunter probabilistic linkage model and dual system…

stat.AP2019★ 2 cited

A review and evaluation of the use of longitudinal approaches in business surveys

Paul A. Smith, Wesley Yung

Business surveys are not generally considered to be longitudinal by design. However, the largest businesses are almost always included in each wave of recurrent surveys because the…