It is widely believed that the decline in agricultural productivity in the Dhemaji district of Assam, India, is due to flood-induced sand depositions in paddy fields. Increased sand content reduces the water retaining capacity of soils and reduces crop productivity. Soil tests in 346...

In this article, we propose a family of bounded influence robust estimates for the parametric and non-parametric components of a generalized partially linear mixed model that are subject to censored responses and missing covariates. The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimates have been...

Sutradhar and Qu (Canad. J. Statist. 26 (1998) 169) have introduced a small variance component (for random effects) based likelihood approximation (LA) approach to estimate the parameters of the Poisson mixed models, and have shown that their LA approach performs better compared to other leading...