Small area estimation when auxiliary information is measured with error

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 919-931

  Ybarra, Lynn M R ^a   Lohr, Sharon L ^b  

^a Arizona State University ^*  (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best linear unbiased prediction; Domain estimation; Fay Herriot model; Mean squared error estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249114755     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn048     Document Type: Article

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