Solution

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Put and . The tree and orchard residual mean squares in ANOVA have expectations and . Equating these to the observed values gives the method-of-moments variance component estimates
In particular and the estimated intraclass correlation coefficient is . These are point estimates from the current experiment, rather than guaranteed variance values for the next season.

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