Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Interclass Correlations
组间相关系数的最大似然估计
The method of maximum likelihood is used to estimate a mother-child correlation, ρMS, when there are a variable number of offspring per family. The technique is iterative and uses standard Newton-Raphson procedures to facilitate convergence. A comparison is made using Monte Carlo methods between the maximum likelihood estimator and other more traditional estimators of interclass correlations. It is shown that the maximum likelihood estimator is roughly equivalent in mean…