González-Manteiga, W.; Lombardia, M.J.; Molina, I.; … - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 52 (2008) 12, pp. 5242-5252
The prediction of vectors of small area quantities based on a multivariate Fay-Herriot model is addressed. For this, an empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) of the target vector is used, where the model parameters are estimated by two different methods based on moments. The mean...