Some general estimation methods for nonlinear mixed-effects models

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 23-55

  Davidian, Marie ^a   Giltinan, David M ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Generalized least squares; Growth analysis; Heterogeneous variance; Intraindividual covariance structure; Repeated measurements

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RELAXIN; SOFTWARE; SOYBEANS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0027564539     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543409308835047     Document Type: Article

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