As an alternative to the average and range method, you can use the variance components method, which is a more powerful statistical technique for analyzing ...

The maintenance of genetic diversity in fitness-related traits remains a central topic in evolutionary biology, for example, in the context of sexual selection for genetic benefits. Among the ...

In order to evaluate the statistical properties of the variance components method implemented in SOLAR and GENEHUNTER2, the type I error rate, power and estimated ...

Traditional methods for covariate adjustment of treatment means in designed experiments are inherently conditional on the observed covariate values. In order to develop a coherent general methodology ...

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Sep., 1956), pp. 737-748 (12 pages) The sampling variance of the least squares estimates of the components of variance in an unbalanced ...

Now perform a variance components analysis on the original data. Press the button in the Measurements window and select Variance Components. The results are displayed, as shown in Display A.15.

A convenient summary of the 'importance' of schools is the proportion of the total variance accounted for, which we will call the 'variance partition coefficient' (VPC) given by the formula: and in ...