Estimation of the proportion of overweight individuals in small areas - A robust extension of the Fay-Herriot model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2699-2715

  Xie, Dawei ^a   Raghunathan, Trivellore E ^b   Lepkowski, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

BRFSS; Complex sample survey; Hierarchical model; Outlier detection; Overweight; t distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBESITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTLIERS, DRG; OVERWEIGHT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249695303     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2709     Document Type: Article

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