Full-Information Estimation For Hierarchical Data

arXiv:2404.13164v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) bases its output on noisy measurements, which are population tabulations added to realizations of mean-zero random variables. These noisy measurements are observed in a set of hierarchical geographic units, e.g., the U.S. as a whole, states, counties, census tracts, and census blocks. The noisy measurements from the 2020 Redistricting Data File and Demographic and Housing Characteristics File statistical data products are now public. The purpose of …

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