New important developments in small area estimation
@article{Pfeffermann2013NewID, title={New important developments in small area estimation}, author={Danny Pfeffermann}, journal={Quality Engineering}, year={2013}, volume={59}, pages={103-106} }
The problem of small area estimation (SAE) is how to produce reliable estimates of characteristics of interest such as means, counts, quantiles, etc., for areas or domains for which only small samples or no samples are available, and how to assess their precision. The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss some of the new important developments in small area estimation methods. Rao (2003) wrote a very comprehensive book, which covers all the main developments in this topic until that…
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