An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas

Longford, Nicholas T.

An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas

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Longford, N. An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas. 2006. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/970

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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.