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Online panel research: a data quality perspective
Studies of J-curve phenomenon have evolved from the Marshall-Lerner condition to establish a direct link between trade balance and exchange rate. Due to the problem of aggregation bias, empirical studies of the J-curve further evolve from employing aggregate data to bilateral da…
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a lifelong chronic disease affecting about 300,000 Canadians (1% of the population). The complicated treatment pathways and patterns of care for rheumatoid arthritis combined with a high burden of disease make RA a fascinating candidate for testing n…
Fueled in part by recent applications in neuroscience, high-dimensional Hawkes processes are widely used for modeling the network of interactions among multivariate point processes. Despite this popularity, existing methodological and theoretical work has mainly focused on estim…
Introduction to data analysis; Predictions and projections: some issues of research design; Two-variable linear regression; Multiple regression.
The ideas of sampling
by Stuart, A.
fromGriffin's statistical monographs and courses series
The need for a theory of sampling; Selection bias: the classroom example; Simple random sampling; The sampling distribution of an estimator; Unbiased estimation; Sampling variance; Sample size and sampling fraction; Example of increasing sample size; Estimation of sampling varia…
