Small area inference for binary variables in the national health interview survey

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 815-826

  Malec, Donald ^a   Moriarity, Christopher L ^a   Leclere, Felicia B ^a   Sedransk, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian predictive inference; Cluster sampling; Cross validation; Empirical Bayes; Hierarchical model; Logistic regression; Synthetic estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744434475     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474037     Document Type: Article

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