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The NESTED Procedure

General Random-Effects Model

A random-effects model for data from a completely nested design with factors has the general form

     

where

is the value of the dependent variable observed at the th replication with factor at level , for .

is the overall (fixed) mean of the sampled population.

are mutually uncorrelated random effects with zero means and respective variances , , ..., .

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