Prediction of ordered random effects in a simple small area model

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 697-714

  Malinovsky, Yaakov ^a   Rinott, Yosef ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes predictor; Linear predictor; Order statistics; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953295127     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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