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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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639
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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Abstract - #308045 |
Title:
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On Sample Sizes in a Longitudinal Survey
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Author(s):
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Andrew Vogt*+ and Dhiren Ghosh
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Companies:
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Georgetown University and Synectics for Management Decisions Inc.
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Address:
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, Washington, DC, 20057-1233,
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Keywords:
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autoregression ;
Box-Jenkins ;
time domain ;
parameter estimation
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Abstract:
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We propose a dynamic approach to determining the sample size in successive survey rounds, rather than a static approach with fixed sample size. Observed data in past rounds is used to update the sample size in the next round. Suppose that in each of n successive surveys, estimates have been made of a population parameter and estimates have also been made of the standard error of the parameter estimates. We consider two scenarios: (i) the estimates and sample sizes are approximately constant up to time n - 1, the sample size at time n is the same as in the past, but the parameter estimate and/or its estimated standard error changes at time n; and (ii) the estimates behave in a regular manner up to time n - 1, the sample size is approximately constant up to time n, and an autoregressive model with white noise matches the sample estimates up to time n -1 but fails at time n.
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