On a hybrid data cloning method and its application in generalized linear mixed models

  • Authors:
  • Hossein Baghishani;Håvard Rue;Mohsen Mohammadzadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Statistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Statistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Statistics and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The data cloning method is a new computational tool for computing maximum likelihood estimates in complex statistical models such as mixed models. This method is synthesized with integrated nested Laplace approximation to compute maximum likelihood estimates efficiently via a fast implementation in generalized linear mixed models. Asymptotic behavior of the hybrid data cloning method is discussed. The performance of the proposed method is illustrated through a simulation study and real examples. It is shown that the proposed method performs well and rightly justifies the theory. Supplemental materials for this article are available online.