ppt课件-mixedmodels（ mixedmodels）.pptVIP

Mixed models Concepts We are often interested in attributing the variability that is evident in data to the various categories, or classifications, of the data. For example, in a study of basal cell epithelioma sites, patients might be classified by gender, age-group, and extent of exposure to sunshine. Table: Another example: Fixed and random effects First is the case of parameters being considered as fixed constants, or we call them, fixed effects. These are the effects attributable to a finite set of levels of a factor that occur in the data and which are there because we are interested i