A general regression procedure for the prediction of a vector of population means in situations of nonresponse is proposed. The multivariate treatment of the prediction problem is not computationally ...

To calculate intra-cluster and intra-household design effects and intra-class correlation coefficients for dietary nutrients obtained from a 24 h record-assisted recall. There were 125 children in 50 ...

The asymptotic estimation theory for operative measures of association with a ratio structure is extended to sampling schemes other than simple random sampling. Following the approach of Rao & Scott ...