ON ROBUSTNESS OF OPTIMAL LINEAR PREDICTION IN FINITE POPULATIONS

Jian-Ying Rong (P. R. China) and Xu-Qing Liu (P. R. China)

Received October 11, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: robustness, linear unbiased prediction, finite population, compound symmetric, true (misspecified) model.