Author : Kok-Leong Chiang
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2000
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Book Description
Moreover, it is extremely easy to implement and delivers both "equal-tail" and "shortest-length" confidence intervals for any parametric function of interest. (In contrast, only a small number of MLS methods have prescriptions for computing a sort of "shortest-length" interval.) We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for estimating several commonly studied functions of variance components in various standard models, including the two-way random effects model (with and without interaction), the two-fold nested random effects model and the three-factor cross-classification random effects model. We show that the proposed intervals easily maintain the nominal confidence level and have average interval lengths that are comparable to or better than those of the best existing methods. Moreover, we show that in a particular application, the standard MLS method of Gui et al. (1995) can be extremely liberal, while the proposed method easily maintains the nominal confidence level.