Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical analysis tool that separates total variability found within a data set into two components: random and systematic factors.

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Mixed-mode surveys, in which different respondents complete the survey by different modes, become increasingly popular. That said, such surveys may lead to a confounding of two forms of mode effects, ...

Milliken and Johnson (1984) present an example of an unbalanced mixed model. Three machines, which are considered as a fixed effect, and six employees, which are considered a random effect, are ...

An important part of the identification and diagnostic checking of space-time ARMA models is the evaluation of the significance of the autocorrelations of the observations and residuals, respectively.