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Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Comput Stat. 2023 Aug 28;16(1):e1633. doi: 10.1002/wics.1633

Table 4.1.

Summary of applications and extensions using weighted pseudo-likelihood approach

Author (s) Data application Survey type Statistical method
Sexual health Bastos et al. (2018) * Prevalence of HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, syphilis among transgender women in Brazil Divas Research: Respodent-driven sampling in 12 Brazilian cities Simple logistic regression model with weights formed from degree in respondent-driven sample
Kunihama et al. (2016) Total number of sexual partners among adolescents in the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: stratified sampling design Dirichlet process mixture model with a rounded kernel method for latent continuous variables
Kunihama et al. (2019) ** Trajectories of variables for adolescent sexual development in the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: stratified sampling design Trajectories of associations between mixed scale longitudinal responses
Envir health Vedensky et al. (2022) Lead concentrations in moss in Galicia, Spain Heavy metal biomonitoring data from Diggle et al. (2010): preferential, lattice sampling Posterior mean predicted surfaces for geostatistical data
Physical and mental health Alivertl & Russo (2022)* Evolution of behaviors in compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures during lockdown in Italy Imperial College London YouGov Covid 19 Behaviour Tracker Data Hub: repeated cross-sectional sampling Dynamic latent-class regression model for longitudinal multivariate categorical data
Parker et al. (2022) ** Health insurance rates by county in the US American Commuity Survey: modified to informative sampling Small area estimation of binary and count data, accounting for spatial dependence
Parker & Holan (2022) ** Association between physical activity and five-year mortality in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: stratified, multistage design Functional regression model with binomial or multinomial outcomes
Trendtel & Robltzsch (2021) ** Influence of test item position on test performance among students in New Programme for International Student Assessment: balanced incomplete block Probit mixed effects regression model. Balanced repeated replication for variance
Williams & Savitksy (2021) ** Association between smoking and depression for adults in the US National Survey on Drug Use and Health: stratified, multistage design Simple logistic regression model
Poverty & housing Fourrier-Nicolai & Lubrano (2020) Child poverty incidence, intensity, and inequality in Germany German Socio-Economic Panel: stratified sample with weights Zero-inflated log-normal mixture model estimating the Three I’s of Poverty (TIP) curve
Gunawan et al. (2020) Distribution of household disposable income in Australia Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia: multistage sampling design Rnite gamma mixture model
Employement Savitsky & Srivastava (2018) Factors influencing number of employees at business establishments in California Current Employment Statistics: informative, stratified sampling Count regression model for large-scale data with unit missingness. Involves sample splitting
Savitsky & Toth (2016) * Factors influencing number of job hires and separations in the US Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey: informative sampling Multivariate count regression model with over-dispersion
Savitsky et al. (2022) Preserving differential privacy guards for family income in the US Current Employment Statistics: informative, stratified sampling Generation of synthetic databases that downweight high-risk records
Sun et al. (2022) ** Prevalence estimates for state-level employment and housing outcomes in the US Household Pulse Survey: complex, multistage design Small area estimation of binomial or multinomial outcome. Spatially correlated random effects
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