Stacked Laplace-EM algorithm for duration models with time-varying and random effects

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2514-2528

  Kauermann, Göran ^a   Xu, Ronghui ^b   Vaida, Florin ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

RANDOM EFFECTS; SPLINE SMOOTHING;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 38149073194     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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