Statistics for small areas within larger regions are recently required for many economic variables. However, when adding the estimates of the small areas within the larger regions, the results do not match up to those obtained with the appropriate estimator originally derived for the larger...

Small area estimation techniques are becoming more and more important for the production of official data. Since 2002 ISTAT has applied small area estimation methods to disseminate estimates of employment and unemployment rates for local labour market areas; furthermore several experimental...

We develop Bayesian procedures to make inference about parameters of a statistical design with autocorrelated error terms. Modelling treatment effects can be complex in the presence of other factors such as time; for example in longitudinal data. In this paper, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods...