Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 507-554

  Rigby, R A ^a   Stasinopoulos, D M ^a   Lane, Peter W ^b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta binomial distribution; Box cox transformation; Centile estimation; Cubic smoothing splines; Generalized linear mixed model; LMS method; Negative binomial distribution; Non normality; Nonparametric models; Overdispersion; Penalized likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 18544382833     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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