Space–time smoothing of complex survey data: Small area estimation for child mortality

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1889-1905

  Mercer, Laina D ^a   Wakefield, Jon ^a   Pantazis, Athena ^a   Lutambi, Angelina M ^b   Masanja, Honorati ^b   Clark, Samuel ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^f ALPHA Network

Author keywords

Bayesian smoothing; Infant mortality; Small area estimation; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960389652     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/15-AOAS872     Document Type: Article

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