Likelihood ratio tests for variance components in linear mixed models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1435-1448

  Giampaoli, Viviana ^a   Singer, Julio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Boundary of parameter space; Tests of hypotheses

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749169960     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.06.016     Document Type: Article

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