There is considerable amount of literature dealing with inference about the parameters in a heteroscedastic one-way random e®ects ANOVA model. In this paper we primarily address the problem of improved quadratic estimation of the random e®ect variance component. It turns out that such estimators with a smaller MSE compared to some standard unbiased quadratic estimators exist under quite general conditions. Improved estimators of the error variance components are also established.
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