Smooth random effects distribution in a linear mixed model

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 945-953

  Ghidey, Wendimagegn ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a   Eilers, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

P splines; Penalized Gaussian mixture; Smooth random effects distribution

Indexed keywords

B-SPLINE BASE FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN DENSITY; GAUSSIAN-MIXTURES; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; P-SPLINE SMOOTHING; P-SPLINES; PENALIZED GAUSSIAN MIXTURE; RANDOM EFFECTS; SMOOTH RANDOM EFFECT DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

MODELING;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LINEAR MIXED MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DAVIDIA;

EID: 10944222639     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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