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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE STATISTIQUE
卷 37, 期 3, 页码 400-416出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10019
关键词
Hot-Deck imputation; Imputation model; Nearest-neighbour imputation; Nonresponse variance component; SEVANI; Smoothing splines
Donor imputation is frequently used in Surveys. However, very few variance estimation methods that take into account donor imputation have been developed in the literature. This is particularly true for surveys with high sampling fractions using nearest donor imputation, often called nearest-neighbour imputation. In this paper, the authors develop a variance estimator for donor imputation based on the assumption that the imputed estimator of a domain total is approximately unbiased under an imputation models that is, a model for the variable requiring-imputation. Their variance estimator is valid, irrespective of the magnitude of the sampling fractions and the complexity of the donor imputation method, provided that the imputation model mean and variance are accurately estimated. They evaluate its performance in a simulation study and show that nonparametric estimation of the model mean and variance via smoothing splines brings robustness with respect to imputation model misspecifications. They also apply their variance estimator to real survey data when nearest-neighbour imputation has been used to fill in the missing values. The Canadian Journal of statistics 37: 400-416; 2009 (C) 2009 Statistical Society of Canada
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