An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas

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Longford, Nicholas T.. An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas. 2007
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Title:	An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas
Author:	Longford, Nicholas T.
Other authors:	Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
Abstract:	We compare a set of empirical Bayes and composite estimators of the population means of the districts (small areas) of a country, and show that the natural modelling strategy of searching for a well fitting empirical Bayes model and using it for estimation of the area-level means can be inefficient.
Document type:	Working paper
Date:	2007
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