Incorporating Spatial Structures in Ecological Inference: An Information Theory Approach

This paper introduces an Information Theory-based method for modeling economic aggregates and estimating their sub-group (sub-area) decomposition when no individual or sub-group data are available. This method offers a flexible framework for modeling the underlying variation in sub-group indicators,...

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Main Author: Rosa Bernardini Papalia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-10-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/10/2171/