Yin, Jiani; Nandram, Balgobin - In: Statistics in transition : an international journal of … 21 (2020) 3, pp. 1-19
Typically survey data have responses with gaps, outliers and ties, and the distributions of the responses might be skewed. Usually, in small area estimation, predictive inference is done using a two-stage Bayesian model with normality at both levels (responses and area means).This is the...
