Restricted likelihood ratio testing in linear mixed models with general error covariance structure

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 1718-1734

  Wiencierz, Andrea ^a   Greven, Sonja ^a   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlated errors; Generalized least squares; Likelihood ratio test; Linear mixed model; Penalized splines; SOEP data; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859831774     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-EJS654     Document Type: Article

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