Linear mixed models with heterogeneous within-cluster variances

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 910-923

  Lin, Xihong ^a   Raz, Jonathan ^a   Harlow, Siobán D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating equations; Pseudolikelihood; Quasilikelihood; Random effects; Random variances

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLUSTERED DATUM; CONSISTENT ESTIMATORS; EQUATION BASED; ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD; QUASI-LIKELIHOOD; RANDOM EFFECTS; RANDOM VARIANCE; WITHIN CLUSTERS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030865701     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533552     Document Type: Article

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