On the behaviour of marginal and conditional AIC in linear mixed models

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 773-789

  Greven, Sonja ^a   Kneib, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information criterion; Kullback Leibler information; Model selection; Penalized spline; Random effect; Variance component

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651278795     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asq042     Document Type: Article

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