Assessing and Compensating for Self-Selection Bias (Non-representativeness) of the Family Research Sample.

Braver, Sanford L.; Bay, R. Curtis

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ERIC Number: EJ455502

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1992

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Assessing and Compensating for Self-Selection Bias (Non-representativeness) of the Family Research Sample.

Braver, Sanford L.; Bay, R. Curtis

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v54 n4 p925-39 Nov 1992

Notes that family researchers can examine extent of self-selection bias in samples by using range of "plausibly correlated characteristics" such as marriage and divorce public records. Provides extensive case example of analyses and discusses compensation techniques of weighting and hazard rate models. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: Models, Participant Characteristics, Research Problems, Sampling, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Bias

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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