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Rank-Based Estimation And Prediction For Mixed Effects Models In Nested Designs, Yusuf K. Bilgic
Rank-Based Estimation And Prediction For Mixed Effects Models In Nested Designs, Yusuf K. Bilgic
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Hierarchical designs frequently occur in many research areas. The experimental design of interest is expressed in terms of fixed effects but, for these designs, nested factors are a natural part of the experiment. These nested effects are generally considered random and must be taken into account in the statistical analysis. Traditional analyses are quite sensitive to outliers and lose considerable power to detect the fixed effects of interest.
This work proposes three rank-based fitting methods for handling random, fixed and scale effects in k-level nested designs for estimation and inference. An algorithm, which iteratively obtains robust prediction for both scale …