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Small Area Estimation using Hierarchical Bayesian under Beta Distribution

Description

This function is implemented to variable of interest (y) that assumed to be a Beta Distribution. The range of data must be 0<y<1. The data proportion is supposed to be implemented with this function.

Usage

BetaDeff(
  formula,
  ni = NULL,
  deff_iw = NULL,
  iter.update = 3,
  iter.mcmc = 10000,
  coef,
  var.coef,
  thin = 3,
  burn.in = 2000,
  tau.u = 1,
  data,
  seed = 1,
  quiet = TRUE,
  plot = TRUE
)

Arguments

formula	Formula that describe the fitted model
ni	Data column name indicating domain sizes. In out-of-sample areas, sizes must be 0.
deff_iw	The factor or string deff_iw represents an approximation of the design effect for area-i, associated with the proportion of area i.
iter.update	Number of updates with default 3
iter.mcmc	Number of total iterations per chain with default 10000
coef	a vector contains prior initial value of Coefficient of Regression Model for fixed effect with default vector of 0 with the length of the number of regression coefficients
var.coef	a vector contains prior initial value of variance of Coefficient of Regression Model with default vector of 1 with the length of the number of regression coefficients
thin	Thinning rate, must be a positive integer with default 2
burn.in	Number of iterations to discard at the beginning with default 2000
tau.u	Prior initial value of inverse of Variance of area random effect with default 1
data	The data frame
seed	number used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator (default seed = 1). The random number generator method used is "base::Wichmann-Hill".
quiet	if TRUE, then messages generated during compilation will be suppressed (default TRUE).
plot	if TRUE, the autocorrelation, trace, and density plots will be generated (default TRUE).

Value

This function returns a list of the following objects:

Est	A vector with the values of Small Area mean Estimates using Hierarchical bayesian method
refVar	Estimated random effect variances
coefficient	A dataframe with the estimated model coefficient
plot	Trace, Dencity, Autocorrelation Function Plot of MCMC samples

Examples

# Data Generation
set.seed(123)
m <- 30
x1 <- runif(m, 0, 1)
x2 <- runif(m, 0, 1)
x3 <- runif(m, 0, 1)
x4 <- runif(m, 0, 1)
b0 <- b1 <- b2 <- b3 <- b4 <- 0.5
u <- rnorm(m, 0, 1)
pi <- rgamma(1, 1, 0.5)
yi <- exp(b0 + b1 * x1 + b2 * x2 + b3 * x3 + b4 * x4 + u)
Mu <- yi / (1 + yi)
A <- Mu * pi
B <- (1 - Mu) * pi
y <- rbeta(m, A, B)
y <- ifelse(y < 1, y, 0.99999999)
y <- ifelse(y > 0, y, 0.00000001)
MU <- A / (A + B)
vardir <- A * B / ((A + B)^2 * (A + B + 1))
dataBeta <- as.data.frame(cbind(y, x1, x2, x3, x4, vardir))
dataBeta$ni <- sample(20:100, m, replace = TRUE)
dataBeta$deff <- round(runif(m, 1, 2), 2)
dataBetaNs <- dataBeta
dataBetaNs$y[c(3, 14, 22, 29, 30)] <- NA
dataBetaNs$vardir[c(3, 14, 22, 29, 30)] <- NA


## Compute Fitted Model
## y ~ x1 + x2


## For data without any nonsampled area

vc <- c(1, 1, 1)
c <- c(0, 0, 0)
formula <- y~x1 + x2
dat <- dataBeta[1:10, ]


## Using parameter coef and var.coef
saeHBbetaDeff <- BetaDeff(
  formula,
  ni = "ni", deff_iw = "deff",
  var.coef = vc, iter.update = 10,
  coef = c, data = dat
)

saeHBbetaDeff$Est # Small Area mean Estimates
saeHBbetaDeff$refVar # Random effect variance
saeHBbetaDeff$coefficient # coefficient
# Load Library 'coda' to execute the plot
# autocorr.plot(saeHBbetaDeff$plot[[3]])  # is used to generate ACF Plot
# plot(saeHBbetaDeff$plot[[3]])           # is used to generate Density and trace plot

## Do not use parameter coef and var.coef
saeHBbetaDeff <- BetaDeff(formula, ni = "ni", deff_iw = "deff", data = dataBeta)

saeHB documentation built on Nov. 26, 2025, 5:06 p.m.