Molina, Isabel; Salvati, Nicola; Pratesi, Monica - Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad Carlos III de … - 2007
This work assumes that the small area quantities of interest follow a Fay-Herriot model with spatially correlated random area effects. Under this model, parametric and nonparametric bootstrap procedures are proposed for estimating the mean squared error of the EBLUP (Empirical Best Linear...