@Article{ Salvati_Ranalli_Pratesi:945-964,

author = { N Salvati and Maria Giovanna Ranalli and M Pratesi } ,

title = { Small area estimation of the mean using nonparametric M-quantile regression: a comparison when a linear mixed model does not hold },

journal = { Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation },

year = { 2011 },

volume = { 81 },

pages = { 945-964 },

}