Hierarchical bayes small area estimation under a spatial Model with Application to health Survey Data

Survey Methodology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-37

  You, Yong ^a   Zhou, Qian M ^b  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area level model; Bayesian model comparison; Disease rate; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical spatial model; Posterior predictive model checking; Sampling variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960246321     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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