Bell, W. R.; Datta, G. S.; Ghosh, M. - In: Biometrika 100 (2013) 1, pp. 189-202
This paper considers benchmarking issues in the context of small area estimation. We find optimal estimators within the class of benchmarked linear estimators under linear constraints. This extends existing results for external and internal benchmarking, and also links the two. Necessary and...