Sentences with phrase «estimation procedure»

As well, where possible, 2011 Census data will be used as auxiliary information in National Household Survey estimation procedures to partially offset some of the remaining biases.

Statistics Canada adapted its collection and estimation procedures in order to mitigate, to the extent possible, the effect of non-response bias.

Using the more appropriate 55 - proxy dataset with the same estimation procedure (which involved retaining K = 10 PCs of the proxy data), yields a higher probability of 84 % that recent decadal warmth is unprecedented for the past millennium.

Other possibilities within the frequentist framework would be to use estimation procedures based on the first - order Taylor expansion method or adaptive Guassian quadrature: Wang and McArdle (2008) used these for estimating the closely related (Chen, 1998; Hamaker, 2009) multilevel changepoint model.

In the three - path mediation analysis, we used the multivariate delta estimator using the following equation from [109]: This variance estimate was used in Empirical Bayes estimation procedure for second - level bootstrapping of the path coefficients [8].

Survey estimation procedures were applied, and the Taylor - series linearization method adjusted the standard errors for the complex survey design.

The estimation procedure used to develop these numbers was as follows: Because data could not be found on other countries / regions, US data (EIA, 2002) on electricity use as a fraction of total energy use by industry and on the fraction of electricity use consumed by motor driven systems was taken as representative of global patterns.

Confidence intervals for percentiles are constructed on this series and discussion about the validity of the estimation procedure follows according to the findings from the simulation experiments regarding the values of the aforementioned criteria.

Oriented toward the logical extension of univariate tests of significance and estimation procedures to multivariate problems.