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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... develops a number of possible alternatives to statistical matching. To quote (Rubin, 1986:89~: The method for creating one file that is proposed here meats the two data bases as two probability samples from the same population and creates one concatenated data base with missing data, where the missing data are multiply imputed to reflect uncertainty about which value to impute.
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