Abstract #300281

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300281
Activity Number: 422
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #300281
Title: Parametric Bootstrap Confidence Intervals in Small Area Estimation Problems
Author(s): Snigdhansu B. Chatterjee*+ and Parthasarathi Lahiri
Companies: University of Minnesota and University of Maryland
Address: 313 Ford Hall, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0460,
Keywords: bootstrap ; small area ; Fay Herriot model ; confidence interval
Abstract:

We propose a parametric bootstrap method to construct confidence interval for a small area mean in the Fay-Herriot model. The method is accurate for coverage probability up to O(n^{-3/2}), a property not established for competing methods. Simulations show that, among competing techniques, it also has the shortest length.

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