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Estimation of Normal Mixtures in a Nested Error Model with an Application to Small Area Estimation of Poverty and Inequality

This paper proposes a method for estimating distribution functions that are associated with the nested errors in linear mixed models. The estimator incorporates Empirical Bayes prediction while making minimal assumptions about the shape of the erro...

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Main Authors:	Elbers, Chris, van der Weide, Roy
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION BENCHMARK BIASES BOOTSTRAP CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM COMMON VARIANCE COVARIANCE DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS DISTRIBUTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL APPLICATION EMPIRICAL SUPPORT EQUATIONS ERROR ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ESTIMATION METHOD EXPECTED VALUE FINITE SAMPLE FUNCTIONAL FORM GINI INDEX GOODNESS-OF-FIT HETEROSKEDASTICITY HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SIZE INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY WILL LINEAR FUNCTION LINEAR MODELS LOG INCOME LOG LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION LOG-LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION MATHEMATICS MATRIX MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION MEASUREMENT ERROR MOMENT CONDITION MONTE CARLO SIMULATION NON-LINEAR FUNCTION NORMAL DENSITY NORMAL DISTRIBUTION OPTIMIZATION PARAMETER VECTOR PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POINT ESTIMATES POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES PRECISION PREDICTION PREDICTIONS PROBABILITIES PROBABILITY PROBABILITY DENSITY PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC GOODS RANDOM EFFECTS RANDOM VARIABLE RANDOM VARIABLES REGRESSION MODEL SAMPLE SIZE SKEWNESS STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD ERRORS STRUCTURAL MODEL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19756129/estimation-normal-mixtures-nested-error-model-application-small-area-estimation-poverty-inequality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19362

Estimation of Normal Mixtures in a Nested Error Model with an Application to Small Area Estimation of Poverty and Inequality

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