Symbolic Formulae for Linear Mixed Models

DOI10.1007/978-981-15-1960-4_1zbMATH Open1445.62177arXiv1911.08628OpenAlexW2989787721MaRDI QIDQ3305482FDOQ3305482

Authors: Emi Tanaka, Francis K. C. Hui 

Publication date: 7 August 2020

Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A statistical model is a mathematical representation of an often simplified or idealised data-generating process. In this paper, we focus on a particular type of statistical model, called linear mixed models (LMMs), that is widely used in many disciplines e.g.~agriculture, ecology, econometrics, psychology. Mixed models, also commonly known as multi-level, nested, hierarchical or panel data models, incorporate a combination of fixed and random effects, with LMMs being a special case. The inclusion of random effects in particular gives LMMs considerable flexibility in accounting for many types of complex correlated structures often found in data. This flexibility, however, has given rise to a number of ways by which an end-user can specify the precise form of the LMM that they wish to fit in statistical software. In this paper, we review the software design for specification of the LMM (and its special case, the linear model), focusing in particular on the use of high-level symbolic model formulae and two popular but contrasting R-packages in lme4 and asreml.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08628

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zbMATH Keywords

fixed effectshierarchical modelrandom effectsmodel specificationmulti-level modelmodel formulaemodel API

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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Cited In (1)

• Spectral parameterization for linear mixed models applied to confounding of fixed effects by random effects

Uses Software

• R
• lme4
• GLIM
• MINITAB
• CRAN
• nlme
• dplyr
• Scikit
• GenStat
• ASReml
• agridat
• pedigreem
• RStan
• rstan
• brms
• Python
• Statsmodels
• cranlogs
• parsnip
• patsy
• pedigreemm

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