Empirical Bayes Estimation of Demographic Schedules for Small Areas.

In this article, we analyze empirical B ayes (EB) methods for estimating small-area rate schedules. We develop EB methods that treat schedules as vectors and use adaptive neighborhoods to keep estimates appropriately local. This method estimates demographic rates for local subpopulations by borrowin...

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Publicado en:	Demography Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 537 - 559
Autores principales:	Assunçāo, Renato M., Schmertmann, Carl P., Potter, Joseph E.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. August 2005
Materias:	Bayesian analysis Statistics Demography methodology Mathematical models Population forecasting Sociology
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