Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: May, 1982, Volume 50, Issue 3

A Class of Decompositions of the Variance-Covariance Matrix of a Generalized Error Components Model

https://doi.org/0012-9682(198205)50:3<713:ACODOT>2.0.CO;2-P
p. 713-724

Arie Kapteyn, Tom Wansbeek

A class of decompositions is derived for the variance-covariance matrix @W of a generalized error components model, introduced in [18 and 19]. The spectral decomposition of @W is a member of this class. For estimation purposes certain other members of the class are preferred, especially those that allow for simplifying transformations of the model not depending on unknown parameters. The transformations suggest simple and asymptotically efficient estimators of both the parameters in @W and the parameters in the systematic part of the model.


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