A new adjusted maximum likelihood method for the Fay-Herriot small area model.
Masayo YoshimoriPartha LahiriPublished in: J. Multivar. Anal. (2014)
Keyphrases
- mathematical model
- cost function
- maximum likelihood
- statistical model
- evaluation method
- objective function
- theoretical analysis
- modeling method
- prediction model
- em algorithm
- linear model
- high accuracy
- optimization method
- monte carlo simulation
- parameter estimation
- detection method
- sensitivity analysis
- study proposes
- test data
- markov model
- prior knowledge
- similarity measure
- high order
- energy function
- probabilistic model
- likelihood function
- segmentation method
- neural network
- linear regression
- reconstruction method
- optimization model
- gaussian distribution
- pairwise
- hybrid model
- input data
- maximum likelihood estimator
- maximum likelihood estimation
- probability distribution
- classification method
- level set
- bp neural network
- recognition algorithm
- prior information
- statistical methods
- classification algorithm