Small area model-based estimators using big data sources

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 263-281

  Marchetti, Stefano ^a   Giusti, Caterina ^a   Pratesi, Monica ^a   Salvati, Nicola ^a   Giannotti, Fosca ^b   Pedreschi, Dino ^c   Rinzivillo, Salvatore ^b   Pappalardo, Luca ^b,c   Gabrielli, Lorenzo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Poverty measures; Social mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934757452     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: 20017367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JOS-2015-0017     Document Type: Article

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