Confidence intervals for intraclass correlation coefficients in variance components models

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2359-2376

  Demetrashvili, Nino ^a,b   Wit, Ernst C ^b   Van Den Heuvel, Edwin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agreement study; ANOVA; Beta distribution; F distribution; REML

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; HUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

EID: 84989903656     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280214522787     Document Type: Article

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