Many statistical agencies, survey organizations, and research centers collect data that suffer from item nonresponse and erroneous or inconsistent values. These data may be required to satisfy linear constraints, for example, bounds on individual variables and inequalities for ratios or sums of...

In most countries, national statistical agencies do not release establishment-level business microdata, because doing so represents too large a risk to establishments’ confidentiality. Agencies potentially can manage these risks by releasing synthetic microdata, i.e., individual establishment...

In most countries, national statistical agencies do not release establishment-level business microdata, because doing so represents too large a risk to establishments\' confidentiality. One approach with the potential for overcoming these risks is to release synthetic data; that is, the released...

Given a Markov process with state space {0, 1} we treat parameter estimation of the transition intensities and state estimation of unobserved portions of the sample path, based on various partial observations of the process. Parameter estimators are devised and shown to be consistent and...

Let M be a Poisson random measure on [0, [infinity]) and let {X(t): t[epsilon][0,[infinity])} be an alternating renewal process induced by the probability measures [eta] and [mu];i.e., X alternates between the states 1 and 0 with independent sojourns, those in 1 having distribution [eta] and...

Given i.i.d. point processes N1, N2,..., let the observations be p-thinnings N'1, N'2,..., where p is a function from the underlying space E (a compact metric space) to [0, 1], whose interpretation is that a point of Ni at x is retained with probability p(x) and deleted with probability 1-p(x)....