Unit nonresponse and item nonresponse both occur frequently in surveys. Unit nonresponse is customarily handled by weighting adjustment, whereas item nonresponse is usually treated by some form of ...

Many techniques in survey sampling depend on the possession of information about an auxiliary variable x, or a vector of auxiliary variables, available for the entire population. Regression estimates ...

Models to estimate heritability (twin or SNP h2) are typically linear models that can be seen as extensions of the simple linear model between two variables, from which one estimates a correlation.

Financial institutions have to add a margin of conservatism of type C (MoC C) to their estimates of probability of default in order to account for the statistical uncertainty involved. European ...