saekernel {saekernel}

Small Area Estimation Non-Parametric Based Nadaraya-Watson Kernel

Description

This Function Gives Small Area Estimation Non-Parametric Based Nadaraya-Watson Kernel

Usage

saekernel(X, Y, vardir, bandwidth)

Arguments

X

Auxiliary Variable of X

Y

Direct Estimation of Y

vardir

Sampling variances of Direct Estimators

bandwidth

The kernel Bandwidth Smoothing Parameter

Value

This function returns a list with following objects:

est

a value of Small Area Estimation Non-Parametric Based Nadaraya-Watson Kernel

refvar

Estimated Random Effect Variance

Examples

##load dataset
data(Data_saekernel)

saekernel(X = Data_saekernel$x, Y = Data_saekernel$y,
vardir = Data_saekernel$Vardir, bandwidth = 0.04)