An improved SAEM algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation in mixtures of non linear mixed effects models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 693-707

  Lavielle, Marc ^a,b   Mbogning, Cyprien ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c Ecole National Superieure Polytechnique Cameroon   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixture models; Monolix; Non linear mixed effects model; SAEM algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904264130     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-013-9396-2     Document Type: Article

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