Can the sample variance estimator be improved by using a covariate?

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-175

  Piepho, Hans Peter ^a   McCulloch, Charles E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate normality; Mean square error; Restricted maximum likelihood; Unbiasedness; Variance component; Yield stability

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CROP YIELD; DATA ACQUISITION; MARKETING; METEOROLOGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747587025     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/10857110260141210     Document Type: Article

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