Small area estimation using a reweighting algorithm

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 931-951

  Tanton, Robert ^a   Vidyattama, Yogi ^a   Nepal, Binod ^a   McNamara, Justine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Poverty; Small area estimation; Spatial microsimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053573588     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00690.x     Document Type: Article

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