Estimation of finite population domain means: A model-assisted empirical best prediction approach

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 473, 2006, Pages 301-311

  Jiang, Jiming ^a   Lahiri, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Mean squared prediction error; Robustness; Small area estimation; Survey weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645506907     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000790     Document Type: Article

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