On unbiasedness of the empirical BLUE and BLUP

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-24

  Jiang, Jiming ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical BLUE and BLUP; Expectations; Mixed models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032622962     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00115-1     Document Type: Article

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