Arbitrariness of models for augmented and coarse data, with emphasis on incomplete data and random effects models

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-419

  Verbeke, Geert ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

enriched data; exponential random effects; gamma random effects; linear mixed model; missing data model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955688793     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0901000403     Document Type: Article

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