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spellingShingle Rao, Jon N. K., Sinha, Sanjoy K., Dumitrescu, Laura, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability
title Robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models
title_full Robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models
title_fullStr Robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models
title_full_unstemmed Robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models
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title_sort robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models
title_unstemmed Robust small area estimation under semi‐parametric mixed models
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