Marhuenda, Yolanda; Morales, Domingo; del Carmen Pardo, … - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 70 (2014) C, pp. 268-280
The selection of an appropriate model is a fundamental step of the data analysis in small area estimation. Bias corrections to the Akaike information criterion, AIC, and to the Kullback symmetric divergence criterion, KIC, are derived for the Fay–Herriot model. Furthermore, three...