Robust estimators and their relations
It is shown that a method of robust estimation in a two way crossed classification mixed model, recently proposed by Bednarski and Zontek (1996), can be extended to a more general case of variance components model with commutative a covariance matrices.
If is shown that in linear regression models we do not make a great mistake if we substitute some sufficiently precise approximations for the unknown covariance matrix and covariance vector in the expressions for computation of the best linear unbiased estimator and predictor.