On Testing an Unspecified Function Through a Linear Mixed Effects Model with Multiple Variance Components

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1113-1125

  Wang, Yuanjia ^a   Chen, Huaihou ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized F test; Genome wide association study; Likelihood ratio test; Penalized splines; Test variance components

Indexed keywords

GENES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GENERALIZED F-TEST; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MODEL REPRESENTATION; NONPARAMETRIC FUNCTIONS; PENALIZED SPLINES; TEST VARIANCE COMPONENT; VARIANCE COMPONENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

ALGORITHM; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; GENOME; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871659012     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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