Bayesian approach for combining probability and non-probability samples surveys

Authors
  • Arkadiusz Wisniowski
Publication date 2022
Host editors
  • Antonia Balzanella
Book title Book of Short Papers SIS 2022
Book subtitle Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (51 : 2022 : Caserta)
ISBN
  • 9788891932310
Pages (from-to) 717-722
Publisher Pearson Italia
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
Our paper proposes a method of combining probability and non-probability samples to improve analytic inference on logistic regression model parameters. A Bayesian framework is considered where only a small probability sample is available and the information from a parallel non-probability sample is provided naturally through the prior. A simulation study is run applying several informative priors. Comparisons on the performance of the models are studied with reference to their mean-squared error (MSE). In general, the informative priors reduce the MSE or, in the worst-case scenario, perform equivalently to non-informative priors.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
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