Likelihood ratio, score, and wald tests in a constrained parameter space

American Statistician

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-27

  Molenberghs, Geert ^a   Verbeke, Geert ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Dose response; Generalized linear mixed model; Likelihood ratio test; Linear mixed model; One sided test; Score test; Variance component; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846889740     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313007X171322     Document Type: Article

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