An Information Theoretic Approach to Ecological Inference in Presence of Spatial Dependence

Rosa Bernardini-Papalia ()
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Rosa Bernardini-Papalia: University of Bologna, Italy

Chapter Chapter 8 in Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis, 2012, pp 157-171 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter introduces an Information Theory (IT)-based method for modeling economic aggregates and for obtaining estimates for small area (sub-group) or subpopulations when no sample units or limited data are available. The proposed approach offers a tractable framework for modeling the underlying variation in small area indicators, in particular when data set contains outliers and in presence of collinearity among regressors since the maximum entropy estimates are robust with respect to the outliers and also less sensitive to a high condition number of the design matrix. A basic ecological inference problem which allows for spatial heterogeneity and dependence is presented with the aim of estimating small area/sub-group indicators by combining all available information at both macro and micro data level.

Keywords: Spatial Autocorrelation; Spatial Dependence; Support Point; Local Labour Market; Spatial Weight Matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31994-5_8

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