An empirical evaluation of small area estimators

SORT

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-135

  Costa, Àlex ^a   Satorra, Albert ^b   Ventura, Eva ^b  

^a Statistical Institute of Catalonia IDESCAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct; Indirect and composite estimators; Regional statistics; Root mean square error; Small areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242293121     PISSN: 16962281     EISSN: 20138830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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