Generalized p values and confidence intervals for variance components: Applications to army test and evaluation

Technometrics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 312-322

  Mathew, Thomas ^a   Webb, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firing occasion; Generalized confidence interval; Generalized p value; Nested effect; Satterthwaite approximation; Tube to tube variability; Variance component

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FIRING OCCASION; GENERALIZED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERALIZED P VALUE; NESTED EFFECT; SATTERTHWAITE APPROXIMATION; TUBE-TO-TUBE VARIABILITY; VARIANCE COMPONENT;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 23844517073     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017005000000265     Document Type: Article

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