Abstract:
Consider the linear model:
Y=
Xβ+
e, where
E(
e)=0, Cov=σ
2V,
V is a nonnegative definite matrix. It is well known that
μ*=
X(
X'X)
-X'Y and \hat\mu=
X(
X'T-X)
-X'X-Y are respectively the least squares and the best linear unbiased estimators of
μ=
Xβ, where
T=
V+
XUX',
U is a symmetric matrix satisfying rank(
T)=rank(
V:
X) and
T≥0. In this paper, a bound similar to Haberman’s is obtained when a certain condition is satisfied. If the vector norm involved is taken as the Euclidean one, a set of necessary and suffciant conditions that is easily applicable for Haborman’s condition to be true is obtained. We prove an extended form of a bound similar to that of 2, and also extend bound 3 to that
V≥0.