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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154883803321

Autore

Rahman Azizur

Titolo

Small area estimation and microsimulation modeling / / Azizur Rahman, Charles Sturt University, Australia, Ann Harding, University of Canberra, Australia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-35494-2

1-315-37214-2

1-4822-6073-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (522 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

519.544

Soggetti

Small area statistics

Statistical machining

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Chapman and Hall book--title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Small area estimation -- 3. Indirect estimation : statistical approaches -- 4. Indirect estimation : geographic approaches -- 5. Bayesian prediction-based microdata simulation -- 6. Microsimulation modeling technology for small area estimation -- 7. Applications of the methodologies -- 8. Analysis of small area estimates in capital cities -- 9. Validation and measure of statistical reliability -- 10. Conclusions and computing codes.

Sommario/riassunto

The book gathers information on the theories, applications, advantages, and limitations of all the small area estimation methodologies. It covers direct small area estimation methods, indirect statistical approaches, including empirical best linear unbiased prediction, empirical Bayes and hierarchical Bayes estimation methods.