Testing transformations for the linear mixed model

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4297-4307

  Gurka, Matthew J ^a   Edwards, Lloyd J ^b   Nylander French, Leena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental research; Inference; Linear mixed model; Longitudinal data; Outliers; Transformation

Indexed keywords

LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; OUTLIERS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 34147114331     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.05.018     Document Type: Article

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