Small sample inference for fixed effects from restricted maximum likelihood

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 983-997

  Kenward, Michael G ^a   Roger, James H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Live Data Process   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha design; Ante dependence; Crossover trial; Mixed models; Residual maximum likelihood; Small sample approximation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COVARIANCE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANTS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0030880605     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533558     Document Type: Article

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