The effective sample size and an alternative small-sample degrees-of-freedom method

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-399

  Faes, Christel ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^a   Aerts, Marc ^a   Verbeke, Geert ^b   Kenward, Michael G ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amount of information; Correlated data; Information limit; Mixed models; Small sample inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450043558     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.08196     Document Type: Article

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