Little, Rod; Vartivarian, Sonya - Berkeley Electronic Press - 2004
to be related to the survey outcome. If the latter is true, then weighting can reduce, not increase, sampling variance. A … detailed analysis of bias and variance is provided in the setting of weighting for an estimate of a survey mean based on … that they are predictive of survey outcomes; prediction of the propensity to respond is a secondary, though useful, goal …