Functional central limit theorems for single-stage sampling designs

Journal Article (2017)
Author(s)

Hélène Boistard (Université de Toulouse)

Hendrik Paul Lopuhaä (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Anne Ruiz-Gazen (Université de Toulouse)

Research Group
Statistics
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1214/16-AOS1507 Final published version
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Publication Year
2017
Language
English
Research Group
Statistics
Journal title
Annals of Statistics
Issue number
4
Volume number
45
Pages (from-to)
1728-1758
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Abstract

For a joint model-based and design-based inference, we establish functional central limit theorems for the Horvitz–Thompson empirical process and the Hájek empirical process centered by their finite population mean as well as by their super-population mean in a survey sampling framework. The results apply to single-stage unequal probability sampling designs and essentially only require conditions on higher order correlations. We apply our main results to a Hadamard differentiable statistical functional and illustrate
its limit behavior by means of a computer simulation.