Likelihood inference for small variance components

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 517-532

  Stern, Steven E ^a   Welsh, A H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary; Likelihood based inference; Local asymptotics; Maximum likelihood estimation; REML; Variance components; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034362615     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315962     Document Type: Article

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