Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 80, No. 4 (2018), pp. 817-836 (20 pages) The problem of misspecification poses challenges in model selection. The ...

Limitations of linear regression applied on ecological data -- Things are not always linear : additive modeling -- Dealing with heterogeneity -- Mixed effects modeling for nested data -- Violation of ...

We show in a general mixed model the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUE) of fixed effects, with unknown variance components substituted by the REML estimates, are jointly asymptotically normal with ...