Thank you for taking the time to think about my problem. The reference states: "The covariance structure must be considered, because for unbalanced data the estimates" (i.e. mu, sigma and tau hats) "are not typically independent." Page 105. It would be nice to simply assume zero covariance terms, but the authors reject this simplification.
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