Hierarchical Bayes Estimation of Unemployment Rates for the States of the U.S.

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1074-1082

  Datta, G S ^a   Lahiri, P ^b   Maiti, T ^b   Lu, K L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Air Quality Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrow strength; Current Population Survey; Gibbs sampling; Model adequacy; Posterior distribution; Posterior predictive assessment; Repeated survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442278082     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473860     Document Type: Article

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