Nonstationary Small Area Estimation
Description
Executes nonstationary Fay-Herriot model and nonstationary generalized linear mixed model for small area estimation.The empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) under stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models and empirical best predictor (EBP) under nonstationary generalized linear mixed model along with the mean squared error estimation are included. EBLUP for prediction of non-sample area is also included under both stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models. This extension to the Fay-Herriot model that accounts for the presence of spatial nonstationarity was developed by Hukum Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2015) and nonstationary generalized linear mixed model was developed by Hukum Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2017) . This package is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Hukum Chandra who passed away while the package creation was in progress.