Estimation and hypothesis testing in BIB design and robustness

  • Authors:
  • Moti L. Tiku;Birdal Şenoğlu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;Department of Statistics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Modified maximum likelihood estimators of the unknown parameters in a BIB design under non-normality of error distributions are obtained. They are shown to be more efficient and robust than the traditional least squares estimators. A test statistic for testing a linear contrast among treatment effects is developed. A real life example is given.