Empirical likelihood for small area estimation

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 473-480

  Chaudhuri, Sanjay ^a   Ghosh, Malay ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Area level model; Dirichlet process mixture prior; Exponential tilting; Hierarchical Gaussian prior; Unit level model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957814404     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr004     Document Type: Article

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