Size and power of tests for a zero random effect variance or polynomial regression in additive and linear mixed models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3283-3299

  Scheipl, Fabian ^a   Greven, Sonja ^a   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

NULL DISTRIBUTIONS; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSIONS; TESTED PARAMETERS; ZERO RANDOM EFFECTS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 40249103367     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.10.022     Document Type: Article

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