On measuring the variability of small area estimators under a basic area level model

DOI10.1093/biomet/92.1.183zbMath1068.62027MaRDI QIDQ5314847

David Daniel Smith, J. N. K. Rao, Gauri Sankar Datta

Publication date: 5 September 2005

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/92.1.183

zbMATH Keywords

mean squared error; hierarchical Bayes; empirical best linear unbiased prediction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F10: Point estimation

62F15: Bayesian inference

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