Application of Sampling Variance Smoothing Methods for Small Area Proportion Estimation
By: Yong You and Mike Hidiroglou
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2023-0026 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
Language: English
Page range: 571 - 590
Submitted on: Sep 1, 2022
Accepted on: Mar 1, 2023
Published online: Dec 10, 2023
Published in print: Dec 1, 2023
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