Bootstrap adjustments for empirical Bayes interval estimates of small-area proportions

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-89

  Farrell, Patrick J ^a   MacGibbon, Brenda ^a   Tomberlin, Thomas J ^a  

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Author keywords

Coverage; Logistic regression; Random effects; Step function prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039861946     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315358     Document Type: Article

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