Hints and/or comments about Problem 16


For part (a), you will have to derive the proper df formula, using the method of Satterthwaite, to use with a simple approximate chi-square pivot. My guess is that you should look over some pages in the two-way mixed effects model part of Miller's book in order to figure out how to modify what I did in the notes for the one-way random effects model to handle the situation at hand. But since we have n = 1, you'll have to look back in the two-way fixed effects model part of Miller to see the proper ANOVA table for the n = 1 case, and use some of what you find there along with some of what you get from the mixed efects model section of Miller's book. (The main thing that is different for a mixed effects model when n = 1 is the error term part --- ones needs to use (I - 1)(J - 1) degrees of freedom.)

To derive the df formula, you should first make sure that you understand the derivation I did on p. E31 of the class notes. Then all you need to do is replace the estimator of the random effects term's variance for the one-way model with the corresponding estimator for the two-way mixed effects model (for the n = 1 case), and go through a derivation of the df using similar steps. Once you got the df, it should be fairly easy to finish things off and obtain the desired confidence interval --- you'll just need to use a modification (since the variance estimator is different) of the approximate pivot result given near the bottom of p. E31. If you got part (b) of Problem 14 wrong, it may be a good idea to make sure that you understand how to do it correctly. In particular, given that one should use 5 df, make sure that you can then obtain the lower and upper confidence bounds. I've posted the correct answers on the homework solutions web page, but if you need more details then you may want to try to track me down tonight, or tomorrow before class.