Target Estimation and Adjustment Weighting for Survey Nonresponse - and Sampling Bia

Sommario

1. The Problem of Unrepresentative Survey Samples; 2. Weight Estimation; 3. Target Estimation; 4. Application to Contemporary Election Surveys; 5. Application to Quota-sampled Opinion Polls; 6. Extensions and Conclusion.

Riassunto

Nonresponse and other sources of bias are endemic features of public opinion surveys. We elaborate a general workflow of weighting-based survey inference, and describe in detail how this can be applied to the analysis of historical and contemporary opinion polls.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Adam J. Berinskey, Adam J Berinsky, Adam J. Berinsky, Devin Caughey, Devin (Massachusetts Institute of Technol Caughey, Sara Chatfield, Erin Hartman, Eric Schickler, Schickler Eric, Jasjeet S Sekhon, Jasjeet S. Sekhon
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108794152
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79415-2
• Pagine: 75
• Serie: Elements in Quantitative and C; Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Teoria delle probabilità, stocastica, statistica matematica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social research & statistics, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics