Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 180, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2017), pp. 1191-1209 (19 pages) Area level models, such as the Fay–Herriot model, aim to improve ...
Given the potentially strong, adverse effects of measurement error and the possibility of minimizing these using Hidden Markov models (HMMs), the aim of this thesis ...