Small area estimation for the price of habitation transaction: comparison of di...

• Author(s): Pereira, Luis Nobre ; Coelho, Pedro S.
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/911
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Small Area Estimation; EBLUP; Linear mixed models; MSPE of the EBLUP
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Local level planning requires statistics for small areas, but normally due to cost or logistic constraints, sample surveys are often planned to provide reliable estimates only for large geographical regions and large subgroups of a population.