Fast implementation for normal mixed effects models with censored response

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 797-817

  Vaida, Florin ^a   Liu, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection limit; EM algorithm; HIV viral load; Maximum likelihood; Truncated multinormal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449166341     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2009.07130     Document Type: Article

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