Best predictive small area estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 106, Issue 494, 2011, Pages 732-745

  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 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fay herriot model; Mean squared prediction error (MSPE); Model misspecification; Nested error regression model; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960147873     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10221     Document Type: Article

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