Plane answers to complex questions. The theory of linear models. (Q4537459)

For a review of the second edition from 1996 of this well established textbook with the same title see Zbl 0868.62054. Besides various smaller changes, the third edition has some changes in how some aspects of the theory are handled. Chapter 1 includes a new section that introduces generalized linear models. This leads to comments on how aspects of linear model theory extend to generalized linear models throughout the text. The concept of identifiability is introduced in section 2.1. Estimability is then treated as special case of identifiability. Section 3.3 uses an alternative approach to dealing with linear parametric constraints. Chapter 8 contains a new section with a theoretical discussion of models for factorial treatment structures and the introduction of special models for homologous factors. In Chapter 9, reliance on the normal equations has been eliminated from the discussion of estimation in ANCOVA models. Appendix F now discusses the meaning of small \(F\) statistics.