Mixed effects regression trees for clustered data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-459

  Hajjem, Ahlem ^a   Bellavance, François ^a   Larocque, Denis ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Mixed effects; Tree based methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651375526     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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