A kenward-Roger approximation and parametric bootstrap methods for tests in linear mixed models-the R package pbkrtest

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1-32

  Halekoh, Ulrich ^a   Højsgaard, Søren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adjusted degree of freedom; Bartlett correction; Denominator degree of freedom; F test; Linear mixed model; lme4; Parametric bootstrap; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907090576     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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