Wald consistency and the method of sieves in REML estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1781-1803

  Jiang, Jiming ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Mixed models; Restricted maximum likelihood; The method of sieves; Wald consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031530952     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1031594742     Document Type: Article

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