Table 3.

Summary statistics for the difference between estimates of within replicate variance: ${\widehat{\sigma }}_{\mathit{MLE}}^2-{\widehat{\sigma }}_{\mathit{SI}}^2$ in three real data sets

	Min.	1st. Qu.	Median	Mean	3rd. Qu.	Max.
Dataset 1	0.024	0.026	0.033	0.095	0.109	0.429
Dataset 2	0.006	0.009	0.027	1.014	0.110	35.380
Dataset 3	0.010	0.019	0.040	0.056	0.042	0.199