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    Estimation of small area event rates and of the associated standard errors

    Papageorgiou, Georgios and Ghosh, M. (2012) Estimation of small area event rates and of the associated standard errors. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 142 (7), pp. 2009-2016. ISSN 0378-3758.

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    Abstract

    We develop empirical best estimators for small area event rates based on the hierarchical Poisson model with log-normal mixing distribution, when the basic data consists of area level measurements. We derive an approximate expression to the mean squared error of the estimators and we provide a method for estimating this expression.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Area level measurements, Count data, Disease mapping, Mean squared error, Optimal estimating equations
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Georgios Papageorgiou
    Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2013 09:14
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:34
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8105

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