On the unbiasedness of the Papadakis estimator and other nonlinear estimators of treatment contrasts in field-plot experiments

DALE L Zimmerman; DAVID A Harville

doi:10.1093/biomet/76.2.253

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On the unbiasedness of the Papadakis estimator and other nonlinear estimators of treatment contrasts in field-plot experiments

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On the unbiasedness of the Papadakis estimator and other nonlinear estimators of treatment contrasts in field-plot experiments

DALE L Zimmerman and DAVID A Harville

Biometrika, Vol.76(2), pp.253-259

06/1989

DOI: 10.1093/biomet/76.2.253

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Abstract

Spatial methods for the analysis of field-plot experiments are considered. Estimators of treatment contrasts obtained by these methods are generally complicated nonlinear functions of the observations. Sufficient conditions for these estimators to be unbiased under a postulated true model are obtained.

Nearest-neighbour analysis

Papadakis analysis

Spatial experiment

Symmetric distribution

Unbiasedness

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Title: Subtitle: On the unbiasedness of the Papadakis estimator and other nonlinear estimators of treatment contrasts in field-plot experiments
Creators: DALE L Zimmerman - University of Iowa
DAVID A Harville - Iowa State University
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Biometrika, Vol.76(2), pp.253-259
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/76.2.253
ISSN: 0006-3444
eISSN: 1464-3510
Language: English
Date published: 06/1989
Academic Unit: Statistics and Actuarial Science; Biostatistics
Record Identifier: 9984257627002771

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