A Conditional Likelihood Approach to Residual Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Generalized Linear Models
广义线性模型残差最大似然估计的条件似然方法
SUMMARY Residual maximum likelihood (REML) estimation is often preferred to maximum likelihood estimation as a method of estimating covariance parameters in linear models because it takes account of the loss of degrees of freedom in estimating the mean and produces unbiased estimating equations for the variance parameters. In this paper it is shown that REML has an exact conditional likelihood interpretation, where the conditioning is on an appropriate sufficient statistic…