商品簡介
This book concerns the error in data collected using sample surveys, the nature and magnitudes of the errors, their effects on survey estimates, how to model and estimate the errors using a variety of modeling methods, and, finally, how to interpret the estimates and make use of the results in reducing the error for future surveys. The book focuses on models that are appropriate for categorical data, although there are references to the differences and special problems that arise in the analysis and modeling of error for continuous data. Though the primary modeling method that is described is latent class analysis (LCA), a wide range of related models and applications are also discussed.
作者簡介
Paul P. Biemer, PhD, is Distinguished Fellow in Statistics at RTI International and Associate Director for Survey Research and Development at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An expert in the field of survey measurement error, Dr. Biemer has published extensively in his areas of research interest, which include survey design and analysis; general survey methodology; and nonsampling error modeling and evaluation. He is a coauthor of Introduction to Survey Quality and a coeditor of Telephone Survey Methodology, Survey Measurement and Process Quality, and Measurement Errors in Surveys, all published by Wiley.