Small Area Estimation for Survey Data: A Hierarchical Bayes Approach

Small Area Estimation for Survey Data: A Hierarchical Bayes Approach

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Model-based estimation techniques have been widely used in small area estimation. This thesis focuses on the Hierarchical Bayes (HB) estimation techniques in application to small area estimation for survey data. We will study the impact of applying spatial structure to area-specific effects and ut...

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Main Author: Karaganis, Milana
Other Authors: Johnson, Brad C. (Statistics)
Language:en_US
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Small-area estimation
Hierarchical Bayes estimation
area-specific geographical effects
loss functions
generalized linear mixed model
weighted balanced-type loss function
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3207

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