Backfitting and local likelihood methods for nonparametric mixed-effects models with longitudinal data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3760-3782

  Park, Jeong Gun ^a,b   Wu, Hulin ^c  

^a FRONTIER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Linear mixed effects model; Local likelihood; Local polynomial regression; Longitudinal data; Nonparametric mixed effects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746010904     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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