A note on the indeterminacy of the random-effects distribution in Hierarchical models

American Statistician

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 318-324

  Alonso, Ariel ^a   Litière, Saskia ^b   Laenen, Annouschka ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Statistics Department   (Belgium)

^c KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hierarchical model; Misspecification; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961005150     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2010.09244     Document Type: Article

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