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stat.ME2026
Pseudo Empirical Best Prediction of Multiple Characteristics in Small Areas
William Acero, Domingo Morales, Isabel Molina
Small area estimators that ignore the sampling design lack design consistency when the sampling mechanism is complex and may be severely biased under informative designs. Existing…
stat.AP2014★ 82 cited
Small area estimation of general parameters with application to poverty indicators: A hierarchical Bayes approach
Isabel Molina, Balgobin Nandram, J. N. K. Rao
Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments and international organizations. Those decisions should be based o…
math.ST2014
Best prediction under a nested error model with log transformation
Nirian Martin, Isabel Molina
In regression models involving economic variables such as income, log transformation is typically taken to achieve approximate normality and stabilize the variance. However, often…