The mixed model with one factor represented by fixed effects, one factor by random effects, and a normal error, has often stipulated that these random effects be a sample drawn from a normally ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper obtains and explores a family of confidence procedures for the mean of a normal distribution which are, in a certain sense, more ...

If hypertension was predominantly genetic, increase in mean BP in populations over time would be associated with unchanged measures of dispersion (variance, standard deviations, coefficient of ...

Statistics uses small samples to predict how phenomena behave in the real world. Many management tools with the aim of maximizing efficiency (ex: Six Sigma) attempt to decrease variances using a ...