Efficient hybrid EM for linear and nonlinear mixed effects models with censored response

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5718-5730

  Vaida, Florin ^a   Fitzgerald, Anthony P ^b   DeGruttola, Victor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV 1 viral dynamics; Likelihood estimation; LME; Monte Carlo EM; NLME; Quantification limit

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHARMACOKINETICS;

AUTOMATED MONITORING; HIV PARTICLES; MIXED MODELS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 34547150734     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.09.036     Document Type: Article

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