On the Unreplicated Ultrastructural Model
Chi-Lun Cheng, John W. Van Ness · Biometrika · 1991
Dolby's (1976) ultrastructural model is investigated with emphasis on the case with no replications and one of the error variances known. It is shown that, in this situation, the maximum likelihood estimators are not consistent. The method of moments estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal and best in Fisher's sense within a broad class of asymptotically normal estimators discussed by Gleser (1983). Some connections with the errors-in-variables model are examined.