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During the design of a data system, indirect estimators rarely, if ever, are considered for Federal statistical programs when resources to produce direct estimates of adequate precision are available. However, given an existing system, if direct estimation is judged to be inadequate for a domain not specified in the design, indirect estimation may, in some cases, prove to be a valuable alternative. There are a number of reasons that direct estimators are preferable to indirect ones and, if federal statistical agencies are to improve the usefulness of indirect estimates, a number of important issues, including those that follow, should receive additional attention. The following points are developed further in the sections of this chapter.
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Schaible, W.L. (1996). Recommendations and Cautions. In: Schaible, W.L. (eds) Indirect Estimators in U.S. Federal Programs. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 108. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0721-4_10
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