%A ZHAO Jing, WANG Lei %T The improved estimator of variance components in the banlanced nested error component model %0 Journal Article %D 2011 %J JOURNAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY(NATURAL SCIENCE) %R %P 116-120 %V 46 %N 3 %U {http://lxbwk.njournal.sdu.edu.cn/CN/abstract/article_1171.shtml} %8 %X

For the balanced nested error component regression model which has three variance components, the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)type estimators—WH estimators,WK estimators, and SA estimators are obtained by the methods Baltagi used. What is more,  the improved estimators are provided, especially aiming at the WK estimators of variance components of random effect and random error respectively, and it is proved that the improved estimators obtained are better than the estimators obtained by the methods Baltagi used under the mean-squared-error criterion.