Reliability of confidence interval estimators under various nested design parental sample sizes

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-98

  Hohls, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

North Carolina I design; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; DELTA METHOD; F DISTRIBUTION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; NORTH CAROLINA; NORTH CAROLINA I DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZES; STANDARD ERRORS; VARIANCE COMPONENTS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032373322     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4036(199804)40:1<85::aid-bimj85>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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