The Enclyclopedia of Biostatistics (Armitage P, Colton T; Wiley, 1999?) has an article on REML.
I have not seen the article, but usually their articles well explain statistical concepts to non-statisticians. The Encyclopedia is a resource you might find helpful in general. For more info, see: http://www.wiley.co.uk/wileychi/eob/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Uebersax, PhD (858) 597-5571 La Jolla, California (858) 625-0155 (fax) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jsuebersax/agree.htm Psychology: http://members.aol.com/spiritualpsych -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Jonathan Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to find a good introduction to REML (restricted maximum > likelihood. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================