Modelling complex survey data with population level information: an empirical likelihood approach

M. Oguz-Alper and Y. G. Berger

Biometrika, 2016, vol. 103, issue 2, 447-459

Abstract: Survey data are often collected with unequal probabilities from a stratified population. In many modelling situations, the parameter of interest is a subset of a set of parameters, with the others treated as nuisance parameters. We show that in this situation the empirical likelihood ratio statistic follows a chi-squared distribution asymptotically, under stratified single and multi-stage unequal probability sampling, with negligible sampling fractions. Simulation studies show that the empirical likelihood confidence interval may achieve better coverages and has more balanced tail error rates than standard approaches involving variance estimation, linearization or resampling.

Date: 2016
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