Estimation of small area event rates and of the associated standard errors |
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| Authors: | Georgios Papageorgiou Malay Ghosh |
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| Institution: | University of Florida, Department of Statistics, 103 Griffin/Floyd Hall - P.O. Box 118545, Gainesville, FL 32611-8545, United States |
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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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| Keywords: | Area level measurements Count data Disease mapping Mean squared error Optimal estimating equations |
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