ABSTRACT

Three keynote lectures are presented at the conference of Small Area Estimation and Other Topics of Current Interest in Surveys, Official Statistics and General Statistics (SAE 2018), an international conference held between June 16 and 18 at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. The speakers of these lectures are world famous statistics professors, James O. Berger, J. N. K. Rao and Malay Ghosh. The lectures mainly review the previous studies and present the pioneering results covering Bayesian statistics, small area estimation, shrinkage priors, etc.

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