Modelling conditional covariance in the linear mixed model

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-71

  Pan, Jianxin ^a   MacKenzie, Gilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cholesky decomposition; Conditional covariance; EM algorithm; Joint mean covariance models; Linear mixed models; Longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548234920     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0600700104     Document Type: Article

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