Tzavidis, N.; Marchetti, S.; Chambers, R. - 2009
assumptions, as well as problems associated with the specification of random effects. However, the plug-in M-quantile estimator … for the small area mean can be shown to be the expected value of this mean with respect to a generally biased estimator of … general framework for robust small area estimation, based on representing a small area estimator as a functional of a …