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Small-area estimation (SAe) is concerned with inferences about the districts (subdomains) or another division of a country (the domain) when the subsample sizes for some subdomains are not large enough for reliable inferences about them to be based solely on the subsamples.
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Longford, N.T. (2013). Small-Area Estimation. In: Statistical Decision Theory. SpringerBriefs in Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40433-7_7
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