Asymptotic normality and valid inference for Gaussian variational approximation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2502-2532

  Hall, Peter ^a   Pham, Tung ^b   Wand, M P ^c   Wang, S S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generalized linear mixed models; Longitudinal data analysis; Maximum likelihood estimation; Poisson mixed models

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655189993     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOS908     Document Type: Article

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