Small area estimation / J. N. K. Rao and Isabel Molina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rao, J. N. K., 1937- author.

Molina, Isabel, 1975- author.

Series:

Wiley series in survey methodology.

Wiley Series in Survey Methodology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small area statistics.

Sampling (Statistics).

Estimation theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Praise for the First Edition "This pioneering work, in which Rao provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of small area estimation, will become a classic...I believe that it has the potential to turn small area estimation...into a larger area of importance to both researchers and practitioners." - Journal of the American Statistical Association Written by two experts in the field, Small Area Estimation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the methods and theory of small area estimation (SAE), particularly indirect estimation based on explicit small

Contents:

Direct domain estimation

Indirect domain estimation

Small area models

Empirical best linear unbiased prediction : theory

EBLUP : basic area level model

Basic unit level model

EBLUP : extensions

Empirical Bayes (EB) method

Hierarchical Bayes (HB) method.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-73572-2

1-118-73585-4

1-118-73579-X

OCLC:

908935498