Assessment of variance components in nonlinear mixed-effects elliptical models

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Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 519-545

  Russo, Cibele M ^a   Aoki, Reiko ^a   Paula, Gilberto A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Elliptical distributions; Hypothesis testing; Nonlinear models; Score tests; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866085859     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-011-0262-2     Document Type: Article

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