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Theory and Method

Generalized Linear Models for Small-Area Estimation

Malay Ghosh Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Kannan Natarajan Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, 08543, USA
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T. W. F. Stroud Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queens University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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Bradley P. Carlin Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
Pages 273-282 | Received 01 Dec 1995, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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