Pseudo hierarchical Bayes small area estimation combining unit level models and survey weights

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 197-208

  You, Yong ^a   Rao, J N K ^b  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design consistent; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical Bayes; Nested error regression; Survey weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290185     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00301-4     Document Type: Article

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