Three-fold Fay–Herriot model for small area estimation and its diagnostics

L Marcis, D Morales, MC Pagliarella… - Statistical Methods & …, 2023 - Springer
This paper introduces a three-fold Fay–Herriot model with random effects at three
hierarchical levels. Small area best linear unbiased predictors of linear indicators are …

Small area estimation for disease prevalence mapping

J Wakefield, T Okonek… - International Statistical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Small area estimation (SAE) entails estimating characteristics of interest for domains, often
geographical areas, in which there may be few or no samples available. SAE has a long …

Small area estimation under a measurement error bivariate Fay–Herriot model

JP Burgard, MD Esteban, D Morales… - Statistical Methods & …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The bivariate Fay–Herriot model is an area-level linear mixed model that can be
used for estimating the domain means of two correlated target variables. Under this model …

Multilevel time series modelling of mobility trends in the Netherlands for small domains

HJ Boonstra, J van den Brakel… - Journal of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
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 under a temporal bivariate area-level linear mixed model with independent time effects

R Benavent, D Morales - Statistical Methods & Applications, 2021 - Springer
This paper introduces a temporal bivariate area-level linear mixed model with independent
time effects for estimating small area socioeconomic indicators. The model is fitted by using …

Area-Level Model-Based Small Area Estimation of Divergence Indexes in the Spanish Labour Force Survey

E Cabello, D Morales, A Pérez - Journal of Survey Statistics and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article develops model-based predictors for area-level proportions of employed men
and women by occupation sectors and for entropies and divergence indexes (DIs) within …

Small area estimation of socioeconomic indicators for sampled and unsampled domains

JP Burgard, D Morales, AL Wölwer - ASTA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2022 - Springer
Socioeconomic indicators play a crucial role in monitoring political actions over time and
across regions. Income-based indicators such as the median income of sub-populations can …

On the use of aggregate survey data for estimating regional major depressive disorder prevalence

D Morales, J Krause, JP Burgard - psychometrika, 2022 - Springer
Major depression is a severe mental disorder that is associated with strongly increased
mortality. The quantification of its prevalence on regional levels represents an important …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical best predictors under multivariate Fay-Herriot models and their numerical approximation

JP Burgard, J Krause, D Morales, AL Wölwer - Econometrics and Statistics, 2024 - Elsevier
Small area estimation of multivariable non-linear domain indicators using aggregated data
is addressed. By assuming that the target vector follows a multivariate Fay-Herriot model …

Robust prediction of domain compositions from uncertain data using isometric logratio transformations in a penalized multivariate Fay–Herriot model

J Krause, JP Burgard, D Morales - Statistica Neerlandica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing regional population compositions is an important task in many research fields.
Small area estimation with generalized linear mixed models marks a powerful tool for this …