The behaviour of normal plots under non-normality for mixed models

South African Statistical Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-138

  Zewotir, Temesgen ^a   Galpin, Jacky S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Best linear unbiased predictor; Empirical distribution; Outliers; Residuals; Shapiro wilk test; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444370225     PISSN: 0038271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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