NEWS.md

In saeproj.multilevel: Small Area Estimation Using a Projection Estimator with a Multilevel Regression Model

saeproj.multilevel 0.1.1

Documentation Improvements

• Revised the package description to include methodological references for the projection estimator, survey data disaggregation, and multilevel small area estimation.
• Revised the titles and descriptions of the package help pages to clarify the purposes of the main function and supporting functions.
• Clarified the roles of saeml_modelsvy and saeml_projsvy as example model-survey and projection-survey datasets.
• Added DOI links and source links to the references in the package README.
• No changes were made to the statistical computations, function arguments, or returned object structure.

saeproj.multilevel 0.1.0

Initial CRAN Release

• Added sae_ml_linear() for small area estimation using a projection estimator with a multilevel regression model.
• Added a design-based residual correction for domain-level projection estimates.
• Added the simulated survey datasets saeml_modelsvy and saeml_projsvy.
• Added S3 methods for printing, summarising, and extracting domain-level estimates.
• Added a vignette describing the sae_ml_linear() workflow.

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