Functional Calibration under Non-Probability Survey Sampling

04/20/2022
by   Zhonglei Wang, et al.
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Non-probability sampling is prevailing in survey sampling, but ignoring its selection bias leads to erroneous inferences. We offer a unified nonparametric calibration method to estimate the sampling weights for a non-probability sample by calibrating functions of auxiliary variables in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. The consistency and the limiting distribution of the proposed estimator are established, and the corresponding variance estimator is also investigated. Compared with existing works, the proposed method is more robust since no parametric assumption is made for the selection mechanism of the non-probability sample. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms its competitors, especially when the model is misspecified. The proposed method is applied to analyze the average total cholesterol of Korean citizens based on a non-probability sample from the National Health Insurance Sharing Service and a reference probability sample from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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