Raking-ratio empirical process with auxiliary information learning

Abstract

The raking-ratio method is a statistical and computational method which adjusts the empirical measure to match the true probability of sets of a finite partition. We study the asymptotic behavior of the raking-ratio empirical process indexed by a class of functions when the auxiliary information is given by estimates. We suppose that these estimates result from the learning of the probability of sets of partitions from another sample larger than the sample of the statistician, as in the case of two-stage sampling surveys. Under some metric entropy hypothesis and conditions on the size of the information source sample, we establish the strong approximation of this process and show in this case that the weak convergence is the same as the classical raking-ratio empirical process. We also give possible statistical applications of these results like the strengthening of the $Z$-test and the chi-square goodness of fit test.