New important developments in small area estimation
New important developments in small area estimation
The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss some of the new important developments in small area estimation (SAE) methods. Rao (2003) wrote a very comprehensive book, which covers all the main developments in this topic until that time and so the focus of this review is on new developments in the last 7 years. However, to make the review more self contained, I also repeat shortly some of the older developments. The review covers both design based and model-dependent methods with emphasis on the prediction of the area target quantities and the assessment of the prediction error. The style of the paper is similar to the style of my previous review on SAE published in 2002, explaining the new problems investigated and describing the proposed solutions, but without dwelling on theoretical details, which can be found in the original articles. I am hoping that this paper will be useful both to researchers who like to learn more on the research carried out in SAE and to practitioners who might be interested in the application of the new methods.
benchmarking, calibration, confidence intervals, errors in variables, fence
method, Informative sampling, matching priors, M-quantiles, Ordered means, Outliers, Prediction MSE, Spline, Two part model
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
Pfeffermann, Danny
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28 September 2010
Pfeffermann, Danny
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Pfeffermann, Danny
(2010)
New important developments in small area estimation
(S3RI Methodology Working Papers, M10/11)
Southampton, GB.
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
35pp.
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The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss some of the new important developments in small area estimation (SAE) methods. Rao (2003) wrote a very comprehensive book, which covers all the main developments in this topic until that time and so the focus of this review is on new developments in the last 7 years. However, to make the review more self contained, I also repeat shortly some of the older developments. The review covers both design based and model-dependent methods with emphasis on the prediction of the area target quantities and the assessment of the prediction error. The style of the paper is similar to the style of my previous review on SAE published in 2002, explaining the new problems investigated and describing the proposed solutions, but without dwelling on theoretical details, which can be found in the original articles. I am hoping that this paper will be useful both to researchers who like to learn more on the research carried out in SAE and to practitioners who might be interested in the application of the new methods.
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Published date: 28 September 2010
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benchmarking, calibration, confidence intervals, errors in variables, fence
method, Informative sampling, matching priors, M-quantiles, Ordered means, Outliers, Prediction MSE, Spline, Two part model
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