Description Usage Arguments Details Value References
This function computes the Observed Best Predictor (OBP) for Fay-Herriot model. The variance of the random error can be specified by the user. Otherwise the function will calculate its Best Predictive Estimator (BPE). In the process of of computing OBP it also calculates the BPE of the regression coefficients of the fixed effect.
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formula |
an object of class formula (or one that can be coerced to that class): a symbolic description of the model to be fitted. The variables included in formula must have a length equal to the number of small areas. More about the model specification are given under Details. |
data |
optional data frame containing the variable names in |
errorvar |
vector containing the variances of the random errors for all small areas. |
randvar |
variance of the random effect. If not supplied, it is estimated by BPE. |
maxiter |
maximum number of iterations used in estimating randvar. |
precision |
covergence tolerance limit for estimating randvar. |
If randvar
is not provided, it is first estimated by its BPE.
formula
is specified in the form response ~ predictors
where the predictors are separated by +
. formula
has an implied intercept term. To remove the intercept term, use either y ~ x - 1
or y ~ 0 + x
.
The function will return a list with the following objects
theta.OBP |
OBP of the small area mean. |
A.BPE |
BPE of variance of the random effect (if not specified by the user). |
beta.BPE |
BPE of the regression coefficients of the fixed effect. |
Jiang J, Nguyen T, and Rao J. S. (2011), "Best Predictive Small Area Estimation", Journal of the American Statistical Association.
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