A boosting approach to flexible semiparametric mixed models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2872-2900

  Tutz, G ^a   Reithinger, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive models; Boosting; Mixed model; Randon slopes; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RESEARCH; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34249879561     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2738     Document Type: Article

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