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Article: Variance Components Estimation: Mixed Models, Methodologies and Applications. (Book Reviews).
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- Technometrics
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- February 1, 2002
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Variance Components Estimation: Mixed Models, Methodologies and Applications, by Poduri S. R. S. Rao, London: Chapman and Hall, 1997, ISBN 0-412-72860-5, xix+204 pp., $69.95.
This is an intermediate level monograph on variance component estimation. It is concise and well written. The first chapter deals with an historical account of the methods along with a variety of application areas. Many of the early classic papers on the analysis of variance are discussed. The basic theorem of Cochran on the decomposition of variance into between and within sums of squares is given in a brief and uncomplicated way.
Chapter 2 deals with the one-way analysis of ...