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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Hierarchical Bayes and empirical
Bayes methods in small area estimation<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Lectures will be based on the book <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Small Area Estimation</I>, by J.N.K. Rao, 2003,
Wiley.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Two recent review articles by the instructor that include a set of useful references on small area estimation are:
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(i) Datta, G.S. (2009). Model-based
small area estimation. To appear in Handbook of</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Statistics edited by D. Pfe®ermann and
C.R. Rao.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(ii) Datta, G.S. and Ghosh, M. (2008).
Small area shrinkage estimation.</FONT></P>
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