The use of approximating models in Monte Carlo maximum likelihood estimation

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-333

  Kuk, Anthony Y C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conjugate latent process; Generalised linear mixed model; Importance sampling; Marginal likelihood; Monte Carlo simulation; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033572985     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(99)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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