Bayesian estimators for small area models shrinking both means and variances

DOI10.1111/SJOS.12246MaRDI QIDQ2965540zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shonosuke Sugasawa, Hiromasa Tamae, Tatsuya Kubokawa

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05179

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte CarloFay-Herriot modelsmall area estimationmean squared errorBayesian estimationGibbs samplingposterior proprietyshrinking both means and variances

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Ridge regression; shrinkage estimators (Lasso) (62J07) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

Abstract: For small area estimation of area-level data, the Fay-Herriot model is extensively used as a model based method. In the Fay-Herriot model, it is conventionally assumed that the sampling variances are known whereas estimators of sampling variances are used in practice. Thus, the settings of knowing sampling variances are unrealistic and several methods are proposed to overcome this problem. In this paper, we assume the situation where the direct estimators of the sampling variances are available as well as the sample means. Using these information, we propose a Bayesian yet objective method producing shrinkage estimation of both means and variances in the Fay-Herriot model. We consider the hierarchical structure for the sampling variances and we set uniform prior on model parameters to keep objectivity of the proposed model. For validity of the posterior inference, we show under mild conditions that the posterior distribution is proper and has finite variances. We investigate the numerical performance through simulation and empirical studies.

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