A NOTE ON SMALL AREA ESTIMATIONS FOR RARE EVENT DATA

Key-Il Shin (Korea), Sang Eun Lee (Korea) and Yonghee Kim-Park (U. S. A.)

Received May 18, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: Bayesian auto-Poisson model, Bayesian Poisson regression model, conditional auto regressive model, Bayesian conditional auto regressive model, Moran’s index.