Empirical likelihood for small area estimation

Sanjay Chaudhuri and Malay Ghosh

Biometrika, 2011, vol. 98, issue 2, 473-480

Abstract: Current methodologies in small area estimation are mostly either parametric or heavily dependent on the assumed linearity of the estimators of the small area means. We discuss an alternative empirical likelihood-based Bayesian approach, which neither requires a parametric likelihood nor assumes linearity of the estimators, and can handle both discrete and continuous data in a unified manner. Empirical likelihoods for both area- and unit-level models are introduced. We discuss the suitability of the proposed likelihoods in Bayesian inference and illustrate their performances on a real dataset and a simulation study. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2011
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