Exact and approximate inferences for nonlinear mixed-effects models with missing covariates

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 467, 2004, Pages 700-709

  Wu, Lang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Em algorithm; Gibbs sampling; Importance sampling; Linearization; PX EM algorithm; Rejection sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944229776     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000001006     Document Type: Article

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