In this paper we investigate optimal prediction of the finite population regression coefficient $\beta _{N}$ under a general linear regression superpopulation model. Optimal predictors are obtained ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We discuss prediction of random effects and of expected responses in multilevel generalized linear models. Prediction of random effects is ...

In the early 1970s, statisticians had difficulty in analysing data where the random variation of the errors did not come from the bell-shaped normal distribution. Besides normality, these traditional ...