merDeriv: Derivative Computations for Linear Mixed Effects Models with Application to Robust Standard Errors

While likelihood-based derivatives and related facilities are available in R for many types of statistical models, the facilities are notably lacking for models estimated via lme4. This is because the necessary statistical output, including the Hessian, Fisher information and casewise contributions...

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Main Authors: Ting Wang, Edgar C. Merkle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2018-11-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2953