type="main" xml:id="insr12027-abs-0001" <p>The paper by Lange, Chi and Zhou (hereafter ‘the authors’) serves not only as a useful reminder about the importance of optimization techniques in implementing modern statistical methods but also as a collection of various techniques along with...</p>

Previous studies have demonstrated both large efficiency gains and reductions in bias by incorporating population information in regression estimation with sample survey data. These studies, however, assume the population values are exact. This assumption is relaxed here through a Bayesian...