Random effects in generalized linear models and the em algoritham
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
- Vol. 17 (11) , 3847-3856
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928808829839
Abstract
Nelder and Wedderburn (1972) gave a practical fitting procedure that encompassed a more gencral family of data distributions than the Gaussian distribution and provided an easily understood conceptual framework. In extending the framework to more than one error structure the technical difficulties of the fitting procedure have tended to cloud the concepts. Here we show that a simple extension to the fitting procedure is possible and thus pave the way for a fuller examimtion of mixed effects models in generalized linear model distributions. It is clear that we should not, and do not have to, confine ourselves to fitting random effects using the Gaussian distribiition. In addition, in, some quite general mixing distribution problems the application of the EM algorithm to the complete data likelihood leads to iterative schemes that maximize the marginal likelihood of the observed data variable.Keywords
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