Small area estimation using linear mixed models with heterogeneous covariance s...

• Author(s): Pereira, Luis Nobre ; Coelho, Pedro S.
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/906
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Small Area Estimation; EBLUP; Chronological autocorrelation; Rao-Yu model; Linear mixed models
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The problem of Small Area Estimation is about how to produce reliable estimates of domain characteristics when the sample sizes within the domain is very small ou even zero.