Small area estimation of general parameters with application to poverty indicators: a hierarchical Bayes approach

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS702zbMath1454.62489arXiv1407.8384MaRDI QIDQ400617

Isabel Molina, Balgobin Nandram, J. N. K. Rao

Publication date: 22 August 2014

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8384

zbMATH Keywords

small area estimation; hierarchical Bayes; noninformative priors; mixed linear model; poverty mapping; nested error linear regression model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

62F15: Bayesian inference

62D05: Sampling theory, sample surveys

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures

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Uses Software

• WinBUGS

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