It is shown that under fairly mild conditions linear combinations of independent normally distributed random variables with random coefficients tend to zero almost everywhere. The result is applied to ...

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This section provides an overview of a likelihood-based approach to general linear mixed models. This approach simplifies and unifies many common statistical analyses, including those involving ...