Negative Variance Estimates and Statistical Dependence in Nested Sampling
- 1 September 1968
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 63 (323) , 1000
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2283890
Abstract
Negative components of variance estimates may arise when the usual specification of statistically independent random variables is false. A class of such situations is considered here, viz., those in which the assumption of sampling from infinite populations is incorrect.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: