Fence method for nonparametric small area estimation

Survey Methodology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-11

  Jiang, Jiming ^a   Nguyen, Thuan ^b   Rao, J Sunil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fay Herriot Model; Fence method; Nonparametric model selection; Penalized spline; Small area estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249284334     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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