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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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... There are at least two advantages of iterative proportional fitting in comparison with statistical matching of individual files from the newer surveys: the statistical match generally will require more computation; the statistical match, as typically accomplished, will ignore the information about the joint distribution present in the older comprehensive survey. Paass (1988)
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