Small-area estimation based on natural exponential family quadratic variance function models and survey weights

DOI10.1093/biomet/91.1.95zbMath1132.62302MaRDI QIDQ5456552

Tapabrata Maiti, Malay Ghosh

Publication date: 8 April 2008

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/91.1.95

zbMATH Keywords

mean squared error; linear unbiased estimator; optimal estimating equation; area specific covariate; poor school-age children; pseudo empirical best

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P25: Applications of statistics to social sciences

62F10: Point estimation

62D05: Sampling theory, sample surveys

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