Within the context of flexible parametric families of distributions, much work has been
dedicated in recent years to the theme of skew-symmetric distributions, or symmetry …

Multilevel time-series models for small area estimation at different frequencies and domain
levels Page 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2022, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2314–2338 https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AOAS1592 …

The purpose of the Dutch Travel Survey is to produce reliable estimates on mobility of the
Dutch population. In this paper mobility trends are estimated at several aggregation levels …

Small area estimation is becoming increasingly popular for survey statisticians. One very
important program is Small Area Income and Poverty Estimation undertaken by the United …

Two connected extensions of the Fay–Herriot small area level model that are of practical
and theoretical interest are proposed. The first extension allows for the sampling error to be …

In survey sampling, interest often lies in unplanned domains (or small areas), whose sample
sizes may be too small to allow for accurate design-based inference. To improve the direct …

Summary The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics performs an annual service
survey that focuses on segments of the tertiary sector. Sample estimates for some economic …

The demand for reliable small area statistics from sample surveys has grown substantially
over the past decades due to their growing use in public and private sectors. The field of …

We consider the estimation of the number of severely disabled people by using data from
the Italian survey on 'Health conditions and appeal to Medicare'. In this survey, disability is …

Abstract The Fay-Herriot model can be seen as a linear mixed-effects model, with known
within-subject variance parameters. These values are given by the sampling variances of …