Author | Goel, Prem K. author |
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Title | The Matching Methodology: Some Statistical Properties [electronic resource] / by Prem K. Goel, Thirugnanasambandam Ramalingam |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1989 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3642-9 |
Descript | VIII, 152 p. online resource |
1. Introduction and Summary -- 1.1 A Dichotomy of Matching Problems -- 1.2 A Paradigm -- 1.3 A General Set-up for Statistical Matching -- 1.4 The Statistical Matching Methodology -- 1.5 Constrained and Unconstrained Matching -- 1.6 Reliability of Synthetic Files -- 1.7 Summary -- 2. Merging Files of Data on Same Individuals -- 2.1 AGeneralModel -- 2.2 Notations -- 2.3 Model-based Matching Strategies -- 2.4 Repairing a Broken Random Sample -- 2.5 Reliability of Matching Strategies for Bivariate Data -- 2.6 An Optimality Property of the Matching Strategy ?* -- 2.7 Monotonicity of E(N(?*)) with respect to Dependence Parameters -- 2.8 Some Properties of Approximate Matching Strategies -- 2.9 Poisson Convergence of N(?*) -- 2.10 Matching variables with independent errors model -- 3. Merging Files Of Data On Similar Individuals -- 3.1 Kadaneโs Matching Strategies for Multivariate Normal Models -- 3.2 Alternatives to Statistical Matching Under Conditional Independence -- 3.3 An Empirical Evaluation of Certain Matching Strategies -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Author Index