A noninformative bayesian approach to finite population sampling using auxiliary variables

Radu Lazar, Glen Meeden, David Nelson

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

16 Scopus citations

Abstract

In finite population sampling prior information is often available in the form of partial knowledge about an auxiliary variable, for example its mean may be known. In such cases, the ratio estimator and the regression estimator are often used for estimating the population mean of the characteristic of interest. The Polya posterior has been developed as a noninformative Bayesian approach to survey sampling. It is appropriate when little or no prior information about the population is available. Here we show that it can be extended to incorporate types of partial prior information about auxiliary variables. We will see that it typically yields procedures with good frequentist properties even in some problems where standard frequentist methods are difficult to apply.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)51-64
Number of pages14
JournalSurvey Methodology
Volume34
Issue number1
StatePublished - 2008

Keywords

  • Auxiliary variable
  • Linear constraints and polya posterior
  • Noninformative bayes
  • Sample survey

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'A noninformative bayesian approach to finite population sampling using auxiliary variables'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this