Positive semidefiniteness of estimated covariance matrices in linear models for sample survey data
Descriptive analysis of sample survey data estimates means, totals and their variances in a design framework. When analysis is extended to linear models, the standard design-based method for regression parameters includes inverse selection probabilities as weights, ignoring the joint selection probabilities. When joint selection probabilities are included to improve estimation, and the error covariance is not a diagonal matrix, the unbiased sample based estimator of the covariance is the Hadamard...