2022/09/02 by Sanjay Chaudhuri, Mark S. Handcock, Chaudhuri, Sanjay +3
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management #Methodology (stat.ME) #demographic modeling and climate adaptation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.01247
openalex publication_date 2022/09/02 · openalex created_date 2022/09/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider an empirical likelihood framework for inference for a statistical model based on an informative sampling design and population-level information. The population-level information is summarized in the form of estimating equations and incorporated into the inference through additional constraints. Covariate information is incorporated both through the weights and the estimating equations. The estimator is based on conditional weights. We show that under usual conditions, with population size increasing unbounded, the estimates are strongly consistent, asymptotically unbiased, and normally distributed. Moreover, they are more efficient than other probability-weighted analogs. Our framework provides additional justification for inverse probability weighted score estimators in terms of conditional empirical likelihood. We give an application to demographic hazard modeling by combining birth registration data with panel survey data to estimate annual first birth probabilities.