Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bates, Douglas ^a   Mächler, Martin ^b   Bolker, Benjamin M ^c   Walker, Steven C ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cholesky decomposition; Linear mixed models; Penalized least squares; Sparse matrix methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943645306     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v067.i01     Document Type: Article

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