An overview of current software procedures for fitting linear mixed models

American Statistician

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 274-282

  West, Brady T ^a   Galecki, Andrzej T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance structures; Longitudinal data analysis; Models for clustered data; Statistical software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856043269     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tas.2011.11077     Document Type: Article

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