Some Properties for the Estimators in Linear Mixed Models

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摘要 Linearmixedmodels(LMMs)havebecomeanimportantstatisticalmethodforanalyzingclusterorlongitudinaldata.Inmostcases,itisassumedthatthedistributionsoftherandomeffectsandtheerrorsarenormal.Thispaperremovesthisrestrictionsandreplacethembythemomentconditions.WeshowthattheleastsquareestimatorsoffixedeffectsareconsistentandasymptoticallynormalingeneralLMMs.Aclosed-formestimatorofthecovariancematrixfortherandomeffectisconstructedanditsconsistentisshown.Basedonthis,theconsistentestimatefortheerrorvarianceisalsoobtained.Asimulationstudyandarealdataanalysisshowthattheprocedureiseffective.
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出版日期 2013年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)