A TWO-COMPONENT NORMAL MIXTURE ALTERNATIVE TO THE FAY-HERRIOT MODEL

Adrijo Chakraborty (), Gauri Sankar Datta () and Abhyuday Mandal ()
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Adrijo Chakraborty: NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Gauri Sankar Datta: Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Abhyuday Mandal: Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

Statistics in Transition New Series, 2016, vol. 17, issue 1, 67-90

Abstract: This article considers a robust hierarchical Bayesian approach to deal with random effects of small area means when some of...

Keywords: Hierarchical Bayes, heavy-tail distribution, non-informative priors, robustness to outliers; small area estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.21307/stattrans-2016-006

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