[Forum SIS] Opening Day - PdD School in Economics, Università degli Studi di Cassino

[Renato Salvatore]

Apologies for cross-posting

The opening day of the PhD School in Economics, Università degli Studi di Cassino, will take place on April 20, at 10:00 a.m., Aula Magna, Campus Folcara. 
We are pleased to invite you to the following opening talk:

"Area-level time-space models for small area estimation" 


by Domingo Morales, Centro de Investigación Operativa, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain.

 


SUMMARY


The talk is divided in two parts. The first part has an introductory character in order to describe the small area estimation problem and the direct estimator. A discussion on the need of introducing models to borrow strength from time and space will be given. The second part is devoted to describe the spatio-temporal area-level models developed in the European project SAMPLE (http://www.sample-project.eu/). In addition to theoretical considerations, the results of some simulations experiments are presented. The experiments are designed to investigate the behaviour of the introduced statistical methodology: fitting algorithms, EBLUP-type estimators and the bootstrap method for estimating mean squared errors. An application to Spanish Living Condition Survey data is also presented. The scope of the application is to estimate poverty indicators in Spanish provinces (small areas). 



Sincerely,
Renato Salvatore



Renato Salvatore
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Facoltà di Economia
Università degli Studi di Cassino
Via S. Angelo - Località Folcara
03043 - Cassino (FR)
Tel.: +39-0776-2993411
Fax: +39-0776-393034
E-mail: rsalvatore at unicas.it
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