Common tools and techniques of measurement systems analysis include : calibration studies, fixed effect ANOVA, components of variance, attribute gage study, gage R & R, ANOVA gage R & R, destructive testing analysis and others.
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Best linear unbiased predictions are similar to empirical Bayes estimates of random effects in linear mixed models, except that in the latter case, where weights depend on unknown values of components of variance, these unknown variances are replaced by sample-based estimates.
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General natural pedigree are analyzed using a mixed effects model in which components of variance ( e . g . additive genetic variance, maternal effects, environmental variance ) can be estimated from a pedigreed population of individuals of any structure ( Slate, 2005.