文摘
In this paper, we make use of least squares idea to construct new fiducial generalized pivotal quantities of variance components in two-component normal mixed linear model, then obtain generalized confidence intervals for two variance components and the ratio of the two variance components. The simulation results demonstrate that the new method performs very well in terms of both empirical coverage probability and average interval length. The newly proposed method also is illustrated by a real data example.KeywordsVariance componentLeast squaresFiducial generalized pivotal quantityFiducial generalized confidence interval