Projecting From Advance Data Using Propensity Modeling: An Application to Income and Tax Statistics
利用倾向建模从初步数据推算:收入与税收统计应用
This article proposes and evaluates two new methods of reweighting preliminary data to obtain estimates more closely approximating those derived from the final data set. In our motivating example, the preliminary data are an early sample of tax returns, and the final data set is the sample after all tax returns have been processed. The new methods estimate a predicted propensity for late filing for each return in the advance sample and then poststratify based on these…