Estimation of Median Income of Four-Person Families: A Bayesian Time Series Approach

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 436, 1996, Pages 1423-1431

  Ghosh, Malay ^a   Nangia, Narinder ^b   Kim, Dal Ho ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Trilogy Consulting Corporation   (United States)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Current Population Survey; Empirical Bayes; First order autoregressive; Hierarchical Bayes; Multivariate; Small area estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030335611     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476710     Document Type: Article

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