An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas

dc.contributor.author	Longford, Nicholas T.	ca
dc.contributor.other	Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-26T10:46:58Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-26T10:46:58Z
dc.date.issued	2006-11-01
dc.date.modified	2017-07-23T02:10:51Z
dc.description.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.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	ca
dc.identifier	https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=995
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10230/970
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 995
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dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.keyword	composite estimator
dc.subject.keyword	empirical bayes models
dc.subject.keyword	mean squared error
dc.subject.keyword	small-area estimation
dc.subject.keyword	Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
dc.title	An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas	ca
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper

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