As an introductory example, consider the orange tree data of Draper and Smith (1981). These data consist of seven measurements of the trunk circumference (in millimeters) on each of five orange trees.

Fréchet mean and variance provide a way of obtaining a mean and variance for metric space-valued random variables, and can be used for statistical analysis of data objects that lie in abstract spaces ...

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Just as PROC GLM is the flagship procedure for fixed-effect linear models, the MIXED procedure is the flagship procedure for random- and mixed-effect linear models. PROC MIXED fits a variety of mixed ...

Statistical process control (SPC) involves ongoing checks to ensure that neither the mean nor the variability of the process readings has changed. Conventionally, this is done by pairs of ...