Monte Carlo likelihood inference for missing data models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 990-1011

  Sung, Yun Ju ^a,c   Geyer, Charles J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic theory; Empirical process; Generalized linear mixed model; Maximum likelihood; Model misspecification; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749093420     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001389     Document Type: Article

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