On balanced random imputation in surveys

G. Chauvet, J.-C. Deville and D. Haziza

Biometrika, 2011, vol. 98, issue 2, 459-471

Abstract: Random imputation methods are often used in practice because they tend to preserve the distribution of the variable being imputed, which is an important property when the goal is to estimate population quantiles. However, this type of imputation method introduces additional variability, the imputation variance, due to the random selection of residuals. In this paper, we propose a class of random balanced imputation methods under which the imputation variance is eliminated while the distribution of the variable being imputed is preserved. The rationale behind balanced imputation is to select residuals at random so that appropriate constraints are satisfied. We describe an algorithm for selecting the random residuals that can be viewed as an adaptation of the cube algorithm proposed in the context of balanced sampling (Deville & Tille, 2004). Results of a simulation study support our findings. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/biomet/asr011 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:biomet:v:98:y:2011:i:2:p:459-471

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

Biometrika is currently edited by Paul Fearnhead

More articles in Biometrika from Biometrika Trust Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().