Using profile likelihood for semiparametric model selection with application to proportional hazards mixed models

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 819-842

  Xu, Ronghui ^a   Vaida, Florin ^a   Harrington, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike information; Bridge sampling; Laplace approximation; Likelihood ratio test; Profile likelihood; Reciprocal importance sampling; Testing on the boundary

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149131707     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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