Abstract

The general unbalanced mixed linear model with two variance components is considered. Through resampling it is demonstrated how the fixed effects can be estimated explicitly. It is shown that the obtained nonlinear estimator is unbiased and its variance is also derived. A condition is given when the proposed estimator is recommended instead of the ordinary least squares estimator.

Keywords

Linear mixed models; Explicit estimators; Ordinary least squares estimators; Maximum likelihood estimators; Abstract bootstrapping

Published in

Statistical Papers
2020, volume: 61, number: 1, pages: 371-383
Publisher: SPRINGER

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