In spatial surveys for estimating the density of objects in a survey region, systematic designs will generally yield lower variance than random designs. However, estimating the systematic variance is ...
The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 149-153 (5 pages) We show that the jackknife technique fails badly when applied to the problem ...
Discusses two alternative approaches to estimating variance components in twin models: (a) estimating the path coefficients from the latent variables to the phenotypes and fixing the variances of the ...