Influence functions and robust Bayes and empirical Bayes small area estimation

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 573-585

  Ghosh, Malay ^a   Maiti, Tapabrata ^b   Roy, Ananya ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hellinger distance; Kullback Leibler divergence; Limited translation rule; Maximum likelihood estimation; Predictive influence function

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949090984     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn030     Document Type: Article

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