Estimation in multivariate t linear mixed models for multiple longitudinal data

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1857-1880

  Wang, Wan Lun ^a   Fan, Tsai Hung ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AR(p); ECME algorithm; Outliers; Random effects; Score test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863337773     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5705/ss.2009.306     Document Type: Article

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