Fast EM-type implementations for mixed effects models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 559-578

  Meng, Xiao Li ^a   Van Dyk, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Incomplete data; Missing data; Random effects models; Rate of convergence; Restricted maximum likelihood; Variance components models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001057239     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00140     Document Type: Article

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