The effect of misspecifying the random-effects distribution in linear mixed models for longitudinal data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 541-556

  Verbeke, Geert ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fixed effects; Longitudinal models; Misspecification; Random effects; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATION;

LONGITUDINAL DATA;

DATA REDUCTION;

LONGITUDINAL DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; RANDOM EFFECT;

EID: 0031555662     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(96)00047-3     Document Type: Article

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