Characterizing the variance improvement in linear Dirichlet random effects models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 2343-2350

  Kyung, Minjung ^a   Gill, Jeff ^b   Casella, George ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70349813799     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2009.08.024     Document Type: Article

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