On propriety of posterior distributions of variance components in small area estimation

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 175-183

  Datta, Gauri Sankar ^a   Smith, David Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fay Herriot model; Jeffrey's prior; Nested error regression model; Random regression coefficients model; Reference priors; Residual likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037336360     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00331-2     Document Type: Article

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