3 papers
stat.ME2025
Bayesian Benchmarking Small Area Estimation via Entropic Tilting
Shonosuke Sugasawa, Genya Kobayashi, Yuki Kawakubo
Benchmarking estimation and its risk evaluation is a practically important issue in small area estimation. While Bayesian methods have been widely adopted in small area estimation,…
stat.AP2025
Spatio-temporal smoothing, interpolation and prediction of income distributions based on grouped data
Genya Kobayashi, Shonosuke Sugasawa, Yuki Kawakubo
The Housing and Land Survey (HLS) of Japan provides municipality-level grouped data on household incomes. Although such data can be invaluable for effective local policymaking, the…
econ.EM2025
Multilevel Decomposition of Generalized Entropy Measures Using Constrained Bayes Estimation: An Application to Japanese Regional Data
Yuki Kawakubo, Kazuhiko Kakamu
We propose a method for multilevel decomposition of generalized entropy (GE) measures that explicitly accounts for nested population structures such as national, regional, and subr…