Ferraz, V.R.S.; Moura, F.A.S. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 56 (2012) 10, pp. 2864-2874
Two connected extensions of the Fay–Herriot small area level model that are of practical and theoretical interest are proposed. The first extension allows for the sampling error to be non-symmetrically distributed. This is important for cases in which the sample sizes in the areas are not...