On Fitting Transformation Model to Survey Data

Abstract

In this article, we consider fitting a semiparametric linear model to survey data with censored observations. The specific goal of the paper is to extend the methods of Cheng et al. (1995) and Chen et al. (2002) to the case when the sample has been drawn from a population using a complex sampling design. Similar to the approach of Lin (2000), we regard the survey population as a random sample from an infinite universe and accounts for this randomness in the statistical inference. A simulation study is conducted to investigate the performance of the proposed estimators.

Keywords:

• Estimating equation
• Complex survey design
• Proportional odds model

Mathematics Subject Classification:

• Primary: 62N01; Secondary: 62N02