Why do "small areas" matter? Within a city there can be lot of differences in health across neighborhoods. Having estimates from surveys of residents for smaller areas within a city allow researchers, ...

In July 2022, researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH) were awarded an National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant to develop and disseminate statistical methods that will help ...

The tenth edition of the Small Area Estimation (SAE) Conference was held in Maastricht from 17 to 19 August, 2016 and was jointly organised by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and Maastricht University ...

We develop a method for bias correction, which models the error of the target estimator as a function of the corresponding estimator obtained from bootstrap samples ...

In statistics, data collection is a difficult process that demands thoughtful consideration. Securing a sufficient sample size can be challenging, or even impossible, regardless of the method employed ...

In this paper we develop multilevel time series models for small area estimation of social cohesion indicators based on the Dutch Social Cohesion and Well-being Survey. This paper develops and ...