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 relevant parameters are presented.
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Shijie
S
Chen
Joint Program of Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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P
Lahiri
Credible interval; MCMC; Rare event