Small area statistics: Methods and applications;Small Area-Statistik: Methoden und Anwendungen

AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 149-191

  Münnich, Ralf ^a   Burgard, Jan Pablo ^a   Vogt, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Dozent an der Eufom European University for Economics and Management Asbl   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Composite estimation; Design based estimation; Regional statistics; Synthetic estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875437652     PISSN: 18638155     EISSN: 18638163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11943-013-0126-1     Document Type: Article

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