Inferences on Small Area Proportions

Design-based methods are generally inefficient for making inferences about small area proportions for rare events. In this paper, we discuss an alternative hierarchical model and the associated hierarchical Bayes methodology. Sufficient conditions for propriety of the posterior distributions of rele...

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Published in:Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics 2012, Vol.66 (1), p.121-124
Main Authors: Chen, Shijie, Lahiri, P
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Design-based methods are generally inefficient for making inferences about small area proportions for rare events. In this paper, we discuss an alternative hierarchical model and the associated hierarchical Bayes methodology. Sufficient conditions for propriety of the posterior distributions of relevant parameters are presented.
ISSN:0019-6363