Estimability and likelihood inference for Generalized Linear Mixed Models using data cloning

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 492, 2010, Pages 1617-1625

  Lele, Subhash R ^a   Nadeem, Khurram ^a   Schmuland, Byron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian computation; Hierarchical models; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650349184     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.tm09757     Document Type: Article

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