SUMMARY
Interviewer variability in a binary response is an example of a problem requiring variance component estimation in a non‐normal family. The maximum likelihood estimation procedure is derived and used to examine some binary items on a large questionnaire. This raises some interesting questions about the use of unbalanced ANOVA methods with these data.
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