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Bayesian Predictive Inference of a Proportion Under a Twofold Small-Area Model

Journal of Official Statistics
Volume 32 (2016): Issue 1 (March 2016)
By: Balgobin Nandram  
Open Access
|Mar 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jos-2016-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
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Language: English
Page range: 187 - 208
Submitted on: Dec 1, 2012
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Accepted on: Oct 1, 2015
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Published on: Mar 10, 2016
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Intracluster and intercluster correlations,
credible intervals,
goodness of fit,
hierarchical model,
simulation study
Related subjects:
Mathematics,
Probability and statistics

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