Two Taylor-series approximation methods for nonlinear mixed models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 465-490

  Wolfinger, Russell D ^a   Lin, Xihong ^b  

^a SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

BLUP; Laplace expansion; Likelihood approximation; Random effects; REML; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LIKELIHOOD APPROXIMATION;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031222254     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(97)00012-1     Document Type: Article

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