Unifying Design-based Inference: A New Variance Estimation Principle

09/19/2021
by   Joel A. Middleton, et al.
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This paper presents two novel classes of variance estimators with superior properties, in the absence of parametric or semi-parametricassumptions. The first new class of estimator is the Oblozene Chlebizky (OC) variance estimators as a novel alternative to the generalized sandwich in Paper 1 of 4. That the OC concept is unlikely to arise from other, more standard, frameworks is manifestly true in light of the 40 year lacuna since White (1980). For any member of the generalized sandwich variance estimator class, there is an OC with the same expected value. The this alternative replaces a random matrix at the center with a nonrandom one. The second type of estimator is guaranteed conservative for the variance of the estimator and is based upon a similar principle of replacing a random matrix with its expectation.

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