An Evaluation of Woodruff’s Technique for Variance Estimation in Educational Surveys

Mark Wilson

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1989, vol. 14, issue 1, 81-101

Abstract: An empirical sampling approach was used to assess the accuracy of a Taylor approximation for the estimation of sampling errors in the statistics involved in estimating a path model based on medium-sized samples gathered using five sample designs commonly used in educational research. The technique was found to give a reasonable approximation for the simplest of the designs but to deteriorate as clustering, stratification, and weighting became more pronounced.

Keywords: variance estimation; sample surveys; Taylor’s series approximation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.3102/10769986014001081

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