An adjusted maximum likelihood method for solving small area estimation problems
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An adjusted maximum likelihood method for solving small area estimation problems
For the well-known Fay–Herriot small area model, standard variance component estimation methods frequently produce zero estimates of the strictly positive model variance. As a consequence, an empirical best linear unbiased predictor of a small area mean, commonly used in small area estimation, could reduce to a simple regression estimator, which typically has an overshrinking problem. We propos...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Multivariate Analysis
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0047-259X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.10.009