Systematic Biases in Panel Surveys Due to Differential Nonresponse
差异性无回应导致的面板调查系统偏差
Panel surveys involve repeated observations made on the same sample of populalation units. In some of these studies systematic biases have appeared; specifically, if Ri is an estimate made from panels appearing in the sample for the i th time, then it has been observed that these estimates sometimes vary systematically with i. It is tempting to interpret these phenomena as being due to conditioning of the panel of respondents. In this article it is shown that these…