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An Evaluation of Woodruff’s Technique for Variance Estimation in Educational Surveys

University of California, Berkeley

An empirical sampling approach was used to assess the accuracy of a Taylor approximation for the estimation of sampling errors in the statistics involved in estimating a path model based on medium-sized samples gathered using five sample designs commonly used in educational research. The technique was found to give a reasonable approximation for the simplest of the designs but to deteriorate as clustering, stratification, and weighting became more pronounced.

Key Words: variance estimation • sample surveys • Taylor’s series approximation

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 14, No. 1, 81-101 (1989)
DOI: 10.3102/10769986014001081


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