Yoshimori, Masayo; Lahiri, Partha - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 124 (2014) C, pp. 281-294
In the context of the Fay–Herriot model, a mixed regression model routinely used to combine information from various sources in small area estimation, certain adjustments to a standard likelihood (e.g., profile, residual, etc.) have been recently proposed in order to produce strictly positive...