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On relations between BLUEs under two transformed linear models. (English) Zbl 1299.62055
Summary: For a given general linear model $$\mathcal{M} = \{\mathbf{y}, \mathbf{X} \mathbf{\beta}, \mathbf{\Sigma} \}$$, we investigate relationships between the best linear unbiased estimations (BLUEs) under its two transformed models $$\mathcal{M}_1 = \{\mathbf{A} \mathbf{y}, \mathbf{A} \mathbf{X} \mathbf{\beta}, \mathbf{A} \mathbf{\Sigma} \mathbf{A}' \}$$ and $$\mathcal{M}_2 = \{\mathbf{B} \mathbf{y}, \mathbf{B} \mathbf{X} \mathbf{\beta}, \mathbf{B} \mathbf{\Sigma} \mathbf{B}' \}$$. We first establish some expansion formulas for calculating the ranks and inertias of the covariance matrices of BLUEs and their operations under $$\mathcal{M}_1$$ and $$\mathcal{M}_2$$. We then derive from the rank and inertia formulas necessary and sufficient conditions for equalities and inequalities of BLUEs’ covariance matrices to hold. We also give applications of the rank and inertia formulas to two sub-sample models of $$\mathcal{M}$$.

##### MSC:
 62J05 Linear regression; mixed models 62H12 Estimation in multivariate analysis
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