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- Title
Profiting from correlations: Adjusted estimators for categorical data.
- Authors
Niebuhr, Tobias; Trabs, Mathias
- Abstract
To take sample biases and skewness in the observations into account, practitioners frequently weight their observations according to some marginal distribution. The present paper demonstrates that such weighting can indeed improve the estimation. Studying contingency tables, estimators for marginal distributions are proposed under the assumption that another marginal is known. It is shown that the weighted estimators have a strictly smaller asymptotic variance whenever the two marginals are correlated. The finite sample performance is illustrated in a simulation study. As an application to traffic accident data the method allows for correcting a well‐known bias in the observed injury severity distribution.
- Subjects
MARGINAL distributions; TRAFFIC accidents; CONTINGENCY tables; MATHEMATICAL category theory; STATISTICAL weighting
- Publication
Applied Stochastic Models in Business & Industry, 2019, Vol 35, Issue 4, p1090
- ISSN
1524-1904
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1002/asmb.2452