Existence of maximum likelihood estimates in normal variance-components models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-47

  Birkes, David ^a   Wulff, Shaun S ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced classification model; Commutative covariance structure; Mixed linear model; Residual maximum likelihood estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037387555     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(01)00302-0     Document Type: Article

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