Parametric bootstrap approximation to the distribution of EBLUP and related prediction intervals in linear mixed models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1221-1245

  Chatterjee, Snigdhansu ^a   Lahiri, Partha ^b,c   Li, Huilin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Coverage accuracy; Linear mixed model; Prediction interval; Predictive distribution; Small area

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049100175     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS512     Document Type: Article

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