Prediction of Random Effects in Linear and Generalized Linear Models under Model Misspecification

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 270-279

  Mcculloch, Charles E ^a   Neuhaus, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean square error of prediction; Mixture distribution; Non normality

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CORRELATED DATA; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MEAN SQUARE ERROR OF PREDICTIONS; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL MISSPECIFICATION; NON-NORMALITY; RANDOM EFFECTS; STATISTIC MODELING; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 79952602238     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01435.x     Document Type: Article

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