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Inference procedures for interelass and intraclass correlations are given in the multivariate context of familial data for which measurements are taken on more than one characteristic. Unified estimators are proposed based on a certain class of unbiased estimators of covariance matrices. Asymptotic distributions of the proposed estimators are derived under the assumption of multivariate normality. The results can be used to construct approximate confidence intervals and test procedures.
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Research supported by the Department of Statistics, the Pennsylvania State University and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AFSO-88-0030.
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Konishi, S., Khatri, C.G. Inferences on interclass and intraclass correlations in multivariate familial data. Ann Inst Stat Math 42, 561–580 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00049308
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