Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77094 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Technical Report No. 2000,45
Publisher: 
Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen, Dortmund
Abstract: 
Positive estimators of the between-group (between-study) variance are proposed. Explicit variance formulae for the estimators are given and approximate confidence intervals for the between-group variance are constructed, as our proposal to a long outstanding problem. By Monte Carlo simulation, the bias and standard deviation of the proposed estimators are compared with the truncated versions of the maxi- mum likelihood (ML) estimator, restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimator and a (lately) standard estimator in meta-analysis. Attained confidence coefficients of the constructed confidence intervals are also presented.
Subjects: 
random effects model
positive estimates of the between-group variance
confidence intervals on the between-group variance
Patnaik's approximation
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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