Conveners
Small area estimation
- Tomáš Hobza (Department of Mathematics, FNSPE Czech Technical University in Prague)
Average incomes of small areas can be usually treated as normally distributed random variables and modelled by the Fay-Herriot model. However, the assumption of normality of the average incomes can be misleading for small sample sizes. We consider that every average follows a gamma distribution and investigate a corresponding gamma mixed model at the area-level. The parameters of the model are...
Small area estimation is a field of statistics which deals with the problem of obtaining reliable estimates of characteristics of interest in situations when the sample is divided into domains for which the sample sizes are often small. For the use in this field a new unit-level logit mixed model is proposed. The model uses fixed effects for areas with larger sample sizes and models the rest...
