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Statistical estimation in partially nonlinear models with random effects

Ye Que ,

School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P. R. China; School of Finance, Huainan Normal University, Huainan, P. R. China

Zhensheng Huang ,

School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P. R. China

Riquan Zhang

School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Pages 227-233 | Received 15 Jun. 2017, Accepted 21 Oct. 2017, Published online: 14 Nov. 2017,
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ABSTRACT

In this article, a partially nonlinear model with random effects is proposed and its new estimation procession is provided. In order to estimate the link function, we propose generalised least square estimate and B-splines estimate methods. Further, we also use the Gauss–Newton method to construct the estimates of unknown parameters. Finally, we also consider the estimation for the variance components. The consistency and the asymptotic normality of the estimator will be proved. Simulated and real examples are given to illustrate our proposed methodology, which shows that our methods give effective estimation.

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