An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa |
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| Data(s) |
02/04/2007
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| Resumo |
We compare a set of empirical Bayes and composite estimators of the population means of the districts (small areas) of a country, and show that the natural modelling strategy of searching for a well fitting empirical Bayes model and using it for estimation of the area-level means can be inefficient. |
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| Idioma(s) |
eng |
| Direitos |
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/</a> |
| Palavras-Chave | #Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods #composite estimator #empirical bayes models #mean squared error #small-area estimation |
| Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
