A bayesian benchmarking of the Scott-Smith model for small areas

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1593-1608

  Nandram, Balgobin ^a   Toto, Ma Criselda S ^a   Choi, Jai Won ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite population mean; Multiplication rule of probability; Multivariate normal density; Posterior propriety; Random samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862908597     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2010.496726     Document Type: Article

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