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162 * ! Mon, 7/30/2012, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Room 29B
Uncertainty Measures of Small-Area Estimators — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Survey Research Methods
Organizer(s): Rebecca C Steorts, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair(s): Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
10:35 AM Bayesian Methods in Poverty Mapping — Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland ; Jiraphan Suntornchost, University of Maryland
10:55 AM Generalized Maximum Likelihood Method in Linear Mixed Models with an Application in Small-Area Estimation Huilin Li, New York University ; Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland
11:15 AM On Estimation of Mean Squared Errors of Benchmarked Empirical Bayes Estimators Rebecca C Steorts, Carnegie Mellon University ; Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
11:35 AM Confidence Interval Estimation of Small-Area Parameters Shrinking Both Means and Variances Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University
11:55 AM Small-Area Estimation with Uncertain Random Effects Gauri Datta, University of Georgia ; Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia ; Anthony Wanjoya, University of Georgia
12:15 PM Floor Discussion



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