In many experimental situations, a response surface design is divided into several blocks to control an extraneous source of variation. The traditional approach in most response surface applications ...

The main focus of this course will be on linear mixed models. That is, linear models with fixed effects and random effects. Some topics we’ll discuss are: When would I want to use a random effect? How ...

The need to consider in capture-recapture models random effects besides fixed effects such as those of environmental covariates has been widely recognized over the last years. However, formal ...