A unifying approach to the estimation of the conditional Akaike information in generalized linear mixed models

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 201-225

  Saefken, Benjamin ^a   Kneib, Thomas ^a   van Waveren, Clara Sophie ^a   Greven, Sonja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional Akaike information criterion; Generalized linear mixed models; Kull back Leibler distance; Model selection; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897892561     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-EJS881     Document Type: Article

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