Restricted likelihood ratio testing for zero variance components in linear mixed models

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 870-891

  Greven, Sonja ^a   Crainiceanu, Ciprian M ^a   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^b   Peters, Annette ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonparametric smoothing; Nonregular problem; Parametric Bootstrap; Penalized splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249145967     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X386599     Document Type: Article

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