The likelihood ratio test for the homogeneity of the variances in a covariance matrix with block compound symmetry

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 1155-1178

  Jiang, Guoyong ^a   Sarkar, Sanat K ^b  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Iterative computations; Linearly patterned covariance matrices; Maximum likelihood estimation; Method of scoring; Signed log likelihood ratio statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038253316     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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