In the face of a growing global population, plant breeding is being used as a sustainable tool
for increasing food security. A wide range of high-throughput omics technologies have been …

Over the last three decades, mixed models have been frequently used in a wide range of
small area applications. Such models offer great flexibilities in combining information from …

Brain tumors are among the most fatal and devastating diseases, often resulting in
significantly reduced life expectancy. An accurate diagnosis of brain tumors is crucial to …

Cancer is a fatal disease caused by a combination of genetic diseases and a variety of
biochemical abnormalities. Lung and colon cancer have emerged as two of the leading …

Medical digital twins, which represent medical assets, play a crucial role in connecting the
physical world to the metaverse, enabling patients to access virtual medical services and …

Praise for the First Edition" This pioneering work, in which Rao provides a comprehensive
and up-to-date treatment of small area estimation, will become a classic... I believe that it has …

An accessible introduction to indirect estimation methods, both traditional and model-based.
Readers will also find the latest methods for measuring the variability of the estimates as …

It has been an amazing time since the publication of the first edition, with vast changes
taking place in the fields of mixed effects models and their applications. At the time when the …

The problem of small area estimation (SAE) is how to produce reliable estimates of
characteristics of interest such as means, counts, quantiles, etc., for areas or domains for …

This research presents a sophisticated framework for the precise downscaling of population
data from census blocks to individual residential units, employing an integration of housing …