Esteban, M.D.; Morales, D.; Pérez, A.; Santamaría, L. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 56 (2012) 10, pp. 2840-2855
The unit-level small area estimation approach has no standard procedure and each case needs separate modeling when the domain parameters are not linear or the target variable is not normally distributed. Area-level linear mixed models can be generally applied to produce EBLUP estimates of linear...