Longford, Nicholas T.Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2017-07-262017-07-262006-11-01http://hdl.handle.net/10230/970We 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.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsAn assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areasinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPapercomposite estimatorempirical bayes modelsmean squared errorsmall-area estimationStatistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methodsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess