Description Usage Arguments Value Note
mphase.gain
takes as input an object created by the estTable
function
and returns a validation of which multiphase method and estimator performed best in comparison
to the onephase estimation (baseline) in terms of estimation precision.
1 | mphase.gain(esttable.obj, pref.vartype = "g_variance", exclude.synth = TRUE)
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esttable.obj |
an object of class |
pref.vartype |
preferred type of multiphase variance that should be compared to the |
exclude.synth |
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mphase.gain
returns a data.frame
containing the following components:
area:
in case of small area estimation: the name of the small area
var_onephase:
standard error of the onephase
estimation
var_multiphase:
smallest variance among the (set of) multiphase estimations stored in esttable.obj
estimator:
multiphase estimator with the smallest variance
method:
estimation Method of the multiphase estimator with the smallest variance
gain:
the gain is the reduction (if value is positive) or possibly also the increase (if value is negative)
in variance when applying the multiphase as alternative to the onephase estimation
rel.eff:
the relative efficiency defined as the ratio between the onephase variance and the multiphase variance
The gain can be interpreted as: "The multiphase estimation procedure leads to a gain
% reduction in variance compared to the
onephase procedure".
The relative efficiency can be interpreted as: "Using the onephase estimation procedure, the terrestrial sample size would have to be rel.eff
times larger in order to achieve the same precision (in terms of variance) as the mutiphase estimation procedure".
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