Paper #995
- Título:
- An assessment of empirical Bayes and composite estimators for small areas
- Autor:
- Nicholas Longford
- Data:
- Noviembre 2006
- Resumen:
- We compare a set of empirical Bayes and composite estimators of the population means of the districts (small areas) of a country, and show that the natural modelling strategy of searching for a well fitting empirical Bayes model and using it for estimation of the area-level means can be inefficient.
- Palabras clave:
- Composite estimator, empirical Bayes models, mean squared error, small-area estimation
- Códigos JEL:
- C15
- Área de investigación:
- Estadística, Econometría y Métodos Cuantitativos
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