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Bayesian Estimation Under Informative Sampling with Unattenuated Dependence

Matthew R. Williams and Terrance D. Savitsky

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Abstract

An informative sampling design leads to unit inclusion probabilities that are correlated with the response variable of interest. However, multistage sampling designs may also induce higher order dependencies, which are ignored in the literature when establishing consistency of estimators for survey data under a condition requiring asymptotic independence among the unit inclusion probabilities. This paper constructs new theoretical conditions that guarantee that the pseudo-posterior, which uses sampling weights based on first order inclusion probabilities to exponentiate the likelihood, is consistent not only for survey designs which have asymptotic factorization, but also for survey designs that induce residual or unattenuated dependence among sampled units. The use of the survey-weighted pseudo-posterior, together with our relaxed requirements for the survey design, establish a wide variety of analysis models that can be applied to a broad class of survey data sets. Using the complex sampling design of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, we demonstrate our new theoretical result on multistage designs characterized by a cluster sampling step that expresses within-cluster dependence. We explore the impact of multistage designs and order based sampling.

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Source
Bayesian Anal., Advance publication (2018), 21 pages.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 4 January 2019

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https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba/1546570987

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/18-BA1143

Subjects
Primary: 62D05: Sampling theory, sample surveys 62G20: Asymptotic properties

Keywords
cluster sampling stratification survey sampling sampling weights Markov chain Monte Carlo

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Williams, Matthew R.; Savitsky, Terrance D. Bayesian Estimation Under Informative Sampling with Unattenuated Dependence. Bayesian Anal., advance publication, 4 January 2019. doi:10.1214/18-BA1143. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba/1546570987


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  • Appendices for “Bayesian Estimation Under Informative Sampling with Unattenuated Dependence”. Supplementary appendices are provided online to support the proof of Theorem 1 and to demonstrate example code and MCMC diagnostics.
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