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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">090402</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201110_09(4).0002</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>True-Value Regression with Non-Response</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bechtel</surname>
            <given-names>Gordon G.</given-names>
          </name>
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        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">University of Florida and Florida Research Institute</aff>
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      <volume>9</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>501</fpage>
      <lpage>512</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: True-value theory (Bechtel, 2010), as an extension of randomization theory, allows arbitrary measurement errors to pervade a survey score as well as its predictor scores. This implies that true scores need not be expectations of observed scores and that expected errors need not be zero within a respondent. Rather, weaker assumptions about measurement errors over respondents enable the regression of true scores on true predictor scores. The present paper incorporates Sarndal-Lundstrom (2005) weight calibration into true-value regression. This correction for non-response is illustrated with data from the fourth round of the European Social Survey (ESS). The results show that a true-value regression coefficient can be corrected even with a severely unrepresentative sample. They also demonstrate that this regression slope is attenuated more by measurement error than by non-response. Substantively, this ESS analysis establishes economic anxiety as an important predictor of life quality in the financially stressful year of 2008.</p>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Census totals</kwd>
        <kwd>cross-national micro data</kwd>
        <kwd>economic anxiety</kwd>
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