Kubokawa, Tatsuya; Sugasawa, Shonosuke; Ghosh, Malay; … - Center for International Research on the Japanese … - 2014
The paper concerns small-area estimation in the heteroscedastic nested error regression (HNER) model which assumes that the within-area variances are different among areas. Although HNER is useful for analyzing data where the within-area variation changes from area to area, it is difficult to...