Author: Maria Ortiz-Estevez <mortiz@ceit.es>, Ander Aranburu

Author: Maria Ortiz-Estevez <mortizest@gmail.com>, Ander Aranburu

Title: Nonstationary Small Area Estimation
person("Hukum", "Chandra", email = "hchandra12@gmail.com", role = c("aut")),
person("Nicola", "Salvati", email = "nicola.salvati@unipi.it", role = c("aut")),
person("Ray", "Chambers", email = "ray@uow.edu.au", role = c("aut")),
person("Saurav", "Guha", email = "saurav.iasri@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")))
Description: Executes spatial nonstationary Fay-Herriot models for small area estimation.The empirical best linear unbiased
predictor (EBLUP) under stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models along with the mean squared error estimation
are included. EBLUP for prediction of non-sample area is also included under both stationary and nonstationary
Fay-Herriot models. This extension to the Fay-Herriot model that accounts for the presence  of spatial nonstationarity
was developed by Hukum Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2015) <doi:10.1093/jssam/smu026>. This package is dedicated
to the memory of Dr. Hukum Chandra who passed away while the package creation was in progress.

Description: Executes nonstationary Fay-Herriot model and nonstationary generalized linear mixed model for small area estimation.The empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) under stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models and empirical best predictor (EBP) under nonstationary generalized linear mixed model along with the mean squared error estimation are included. EBLUP for prediction of non-sample area is also included under both stationary and nonstationary Fay-Herriot models. This extension to the Fay-Herriot model that accounts for the presence  of spatial nonstationarity was developed by Hukum Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2015) <doi:10.1093/jssam/smu026> and nonstationary generalized linear mixed model was developed by Hukum  Chandra, Nicola Salvati and Ray Chambers (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2017.01.004>. This package is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Hukum Chandra who passed away while the package creation was in progress.