Mean squared error of prediction in models for studying ecological and agronomic systems
Mean squared error of prediction in models for studying ecological and agronomic systems
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DOI:
10.2307/2531995
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发表时间:
1987-09
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影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
D. Wallach;B. Goffinet
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作者:
D. Wallach;B. Goffinet
The mean squared error of prediction (MSEP) as a criterion for evaluating models used for studying ecological and agronomic systems is considered. It is shown that the different sources of error that have been discussed in the literature for such models can be rigorously defined in terms of the MSEP. A situation that occurs frequently for such models is that the model parameters are determined independently of data used to test the model, and the population of interest is structured in subpopulations. It is shown that in this case obtaining estimators of MSEP and of the individual error contributions can be reduced to the classic problem of estimating components of variance in a oneway random model. For comparison, the case where the parameters are estimated from the same data used to test the model is also addressed here.