If you are interested in technical details, you should check Krewski &
Rao and Rao & Wu original papers:
http://www.citeulike.org/user/ctacmo/article/785133,
http://www.citeulike.org/user/ctacmo/article/774883, or Shao's review:
http://www.citeulike.org/user/ctacmo/article/1036970. The way I am
thinking about the resampling methods, and jackknife especially, is
that they are taking small steps around the maximum of the likelihood,
trying to get a feel of the surface around that max, and then it does
not matter much whether the weights/unequal prob of selection are used
or not: it would change the structure of those small steps, but won't
change things conceptually.
On 3/24/07, James Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a question about variance estimation with survey data. The -svr-
commands in Stata can be used to analyze complex survey data with
replication methods such as the jackknife. I am working with a multi-stage
sample of the US population. The first-stage sampling was performed without
replacement (WOR). Since the sampling fraction was small (<10%), I should
be able to analyze the data as though sampled with replacement (WR). The
first stage units were also selected with unequal probabilites using a
probability proportional to size (PPS) algorithm. The second-stage units
(survey respondents) were selected randomly, and there is no stratification.
I have read (in the manual for SUDAAN) that the jackknife variance estimator
is applicable when:
(1) WR sampling is used at the first stage or the sampling fraction is small
in every first-stage stratum.
(2) WR or WOR sampling is used at subsequent stages.
(3) Sampling is performed with equal or unequal probabilities of selection
at both the first and subsequent stages.
I thought that the jackknife assumes WR sampling AND equal probabilities of
selection. Can anyone tell me why the jackknife would still be applicable
when the first stage sampling was done using PPS (with unequal selection
probabilities in a single first-stage stratum)? Thanks!
--
Stas Kolenikov
http://stas.kolenikov.name
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