A Simulation Study on Intracluster Correlation
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The study of the common intracluster correlation in simple linear regression is well developed ([1] and [2]). For the situation involving various intracluster correlation coefficients, the issues become more complicated. The prime objective of this study is to compare the loss of efficiency in using the intracluster correlation structure of common form to that in Toeplitz form for simple linear regression using generalised least squares.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006