r-saeeb

Provides small area estimation for count data type and gives option whether to use covariates in the estimation or not. By implementing Empirical Bayes (EB) Poisson-Gamma model, each function returns EB estimators and mean squared error (MSE) estimators for each area. The EB estimators without covariates are obtained using the model proposed by Clayton & Kaldor (1987) <doi:10.2307/2532003>, the EB estimators with covariates are obtained using the model proposed by Wakefield (2006) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxl008> and the MSE estimators are obtained using Jackknife method by Jiang et. al. (2002) <doi:10.1214/aos/1043351257>.