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Linear Models — transformation for generalized least squares

For uncorrelated observations (y1,y2,…,yn)=Y(y_1, y_2, …, y_n) = Y, we define a linear model-I. Y=Xβ+ε\mathbf{Y} = \mathbf{X}\beta + \varepsilon such that E(ε)=0\mathbb{E}(\varepsilon) = 0, D(ε)=σ2ID(\varepsilon) = \sigma^2\mathbf{I}. E(Y)=Xβ\mathbb{E}(\mathbf{Y}) = \mathbf{X}\beta and D(Y)=σ2ID(\mathbf{Y}) = \sigma^2\mathbf{I}. We then define a more general model-II. E(Y)=Xβ\mathbb{E}(\mathbf{Y}) = \mathbf{X}\beta and D(Y)=σ2GD(\mathbf{Y}) = \sigma^2\mathbf{G}, where ∣G∣≠0|\mathbf{G}| \ne 0 introduces correlations among the observations such that G\mathbf{G} is a known matrix, I\mathbf{I} is a unit matrix of order nn, DD is a variance-covariance matrix and β\beta, σ2\sigma^2 are unknown. Model-II can be reduced to Model-I by considering a transformation.

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