Exploiting exchangeability

 

The commands in the remainder of this chapter require that a preliminary adjustment has been made, following which the commands here are used to determine the effects of changing the sample size. These commands may be used when the following conditions are observed.

1. That there are a collection of exchangeable quantities , with properties as outlined in §16.1, which will be or have been used to form an adjustment.
2. That the collection of quantities being adjusted, must be second-order exchangeable with . That is, we must have

   

   Arrange the as the entries of the matrix .

3. An exchangeable adjustment [B/C(n)] must have taken place already, either with a sample size , or with the exchangeable  control switched on.