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Comments on: “Single and two-stage cross-sectional and time series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation”

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Steorts, RC; Ugarte, MD
Published in: Test
December 1, 2014

We congratulate the authors for a stimulating and valuable manuscript, providing a careful review of the state-of-the-art in cross-sectional and time-series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation. They develop a novel two-stage benchmarking method for hierarchical time series models, where they evaluate their procedure by estimating monthly total unemployment using data from the US Census Bureau. We discuss three topics: linearity and model misspecification, computational complexity and model comparisons, and, some aspects on small area estimation in practice. More specifically, we pose the following questions to the authors, that they may wish to answer: How robust is their model to misspecification? Is it time to perhaps move away from linear models of the type considered by Fay and Herriot (J Am Stat Assoc 74:269–277, 1979), Battese et al. (J Am Stat Assoc 83:28–36, 1988)? What is the asymptotic computational complexity and what comparisons can be made to other models? Should the benchmarking constraints be inherently fixed or should they be random?.

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Published In

Test

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1863-8260

ISSN

1133-0686

Publication Date

December 1, 2014

Volume

23

Issue

4

Start / End Page

680 / 685

Related Subject Headings

  • Statistics & Probability
  • 4905 Statistics
  • 0104 Statistics
 

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Steorts, R. C., & Ugarte, M. D. (2014). Comments on: “Single and two-stage cross-sectional and time series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation”. Test, 23(4), 680–685. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-014-0386-2
Steorts, R. C., and M. D. Ugarte. “Comments on: “Single and two-stage cross-sectional and time series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation”.” Test 23, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 680–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-014-0386-2.
Steorts, R. C., and M. D. Ugarte. “Comments on: “Single and two-stage cross-sectional and time series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation”.” Test, vol. 23, no. 4, Dec. 2014, pp. 680–85. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s11749-014-0386-2.
Journal cover image

Published In

Test

DOI

EISSN

1863-8260

ISSN

1133-0686

Publication Date

December 1, 2014

Volume

23

Issue

4

Start / End Page

680 / 685

Related Subject Headings

  • Statistics & Probability
  • 4905 Statistics
  • 0104 Statistics