Robust small area estimation

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-399

  Sinha, Sanjoy K ^a   Rao, J N K ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Best linear unbiased prediction; Bootstrap method; Mean squared error; Mixed model; Robust estimation; Small area mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049145766     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10029     Document Type: Article

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