Benchmarking small area estimators

Biometrika

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 189-202

  Bell, W R ^a   Datta, G S ^b   Ghosh, M ^c  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented model; Best linear unbiased predictor; External constraint; Internal constraint; Orthogonal projection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874759949     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ass063     Document Type: Article

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