Some sampling characteristics of three estimators of the intraclass correlation were investigated under a variety of conditions within the context of a one-way three treatment level random effects analysis of variance. The results promote caution in the use of all three estimators since they show both a large negative bias under most conditions and a large standard deviation. The three estimators differed very little in their degree of bias or in the magnitude of their standard errors.
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