Fast Moment-Based Estimation for Hierarchical Models
层级模型的快速矩估计
Summary Hierarchical models allow for heterogeneous behaviours in a population while simultaneously borrowing estimation strength across all subpopulations. Unfortunately, existing likelihood-based methods for fitting hierarchical models have high computational demands, and these demands have limited their adoption in large-scale prediction and inference problems. The paper proposes a moment-based procedure for estimating the parameters of a hierarchical model which has its…