Combining Information from Several Groups in Estimating Characteristics of Immigrant People

Donata Marasini () and Sonia Migliorati ()
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Donata Marasini: Universitè degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Sonia Migliorati: Universitè degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Statistical Methods & Applications, 2006, vol. 15, issue 1, No 8, 107-127

Abstract: Abstract The topic of immigration is attracting more and more attention also from the methodological point of view due to elusiveness and anonymity difficulties. Some results on a suitable sampling technique (Blangiardo 1996) and on the problem of estimating the mean of a quantitative characteristic of interest (Statistica LXIII 3:537–560, 2003) are almost consolidated nowadays. Yet the estimate of a parameter referring to a small sub-population is still open. In such a context the presence of rare domains calls for an eligible composite estimator. The present paper proposes some point and region composite estimates for the proportion and makes a comparison between them via a simulative study based on real data.

Keywords: Elusive population; Center sampling; Rare domain; Composite estimator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/s10260-006-0004-x

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