Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A bivariate distribution with continuous margins can be uniquely decomposed via a copula and its marginal distributions. We consider the ...