Smoothing County-Level Sampling Variances to Improve Small Area Models’ Outputs
The use of hierarchical Bayesian small area models, which take survey estimates along with auxiliary data as input to produce official statistics, has increased in recent years. Survey estimates for small domains are usually unreliable due to small sample sizes, and the corresponding sampling varian...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Stats |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-905X/5/3/52 |