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Original Articles

Unbiased Estimator for a Covariance Matrix Under Two-Step Monotone Incomplete Sample

Shin-Ichi TsukadaSchool of Education, Meisei University, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1613-1629 | Received 22 Nov 2011, Accepted 28 Feb 2012, Published online: 28 Mar 2014

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