Non-negative estimation of variance components in heteroscedastic one-way random-effects ANOVA models

Statistics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 557-569

  Mathew, Thomas ^a   Nahtman, Tatjana ^b   von Rosen, Dietrich ^c   Sinha, Bimal Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Random parameters; Smallest mse; Unbalanced one way model; Variance component estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649689375     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880903237106     Document Type: Article

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