The Estimation of the Mean Squared Error
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Prasad, N. G. N.; Rao, J. N. K.
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Article
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1990
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American Statistical Association
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English
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Small-area estimation has received considerable attention in recent years because of a growing demand for reliable small-area statistics. The direct-survey estimators, based only on the data from a given small area (or small domain), are likely to yield unacceptably large standard errors because of