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A new approach to the estimation of variance components
| dc.contributor.advisor | Couch, J. R. | |
| dc.creator | Smith, David Worth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-08T17:51:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-08T17:51:52Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1971 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1961 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-173214 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Consideration is given to obtaining maximum-likelihood estimates of variance components for both balanced and unbalanced data. The tool which allows this is the inverse of the variance-covariance matrix which is given for all designs with equal cell sizes. The inverse is also obtained for several elementary models with unequal cell sizes. These inverses together with a new method for obtaining the likelihood equations are then used to consider the maximum-likelihood estimators. It is noted that in most cases these estimators are usually not linear combinations of the sufficient statistics. Possibilities for certain estimators which are closely kin to maximum-likelihood estimators are also considered. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 103 leaves | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Poultry Science (Nutrition) | en |
| dc.title | A new approach to the estimation of variance components | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Statistics | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
| dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
| dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries |
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