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D. A. Elston, Estimation of Denominator Degrees of Freedom of F-Distributions for Assessing Wald Statistics for Fixed-Effect Factors in Unbalanced Mixed Models, Biometrics, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 1085-1096
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