Fence methods for mixed model selection

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1669-1692

  Jiang, Jiming ^a   Rao, J Sunil ^b,c   Gu, Zhonghua ^b,c   Nguyen, Thuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALZA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive fence; Consistency; F B fence; Finite sample performance; GLMM; Linear mixed model; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049087315     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS517     Document Type: Article

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