In this paper a geographical weighted pseudo empirical best linear unbiased predictor (GWEBLUP) for small area averages is proposed, and two approaches for estimating its mean squared error (MSE), a conditional approach and an unconditional one, are developed. The popular empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) under the linear mixed model and its associated MSE estimator are obtained ...

where X is a known n × p model matrix, the vector y is an observable ndimensional random vector, β is a p × 1 vector of unknown parameters, and ε is an unobservable vector of random errors with expectation E(ε) = 0, and covariance matrix cov(ε) = σV, where σ > 0 is an unknown constant. The nonnegative definite (possibly singular) matrix V is known. In our considerations σ has no role and hence ...