A Demonstration of Propensity-Score Weighting to Adjust a Social Media Nonprobability Sample Survey of Political Attitudes.
Interest in using nonprobability online samples continues to grow despite concerns about selection bias. Many methods exist for adjusting nonprobability data so it may yield generalizable inferences. Here we investigate whether a propensity score weighting method can balance differences between a pr...
| Publicado en: | Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 536 - 566 |
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Summer2026
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