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Linear mixed models for complex survey data: implementing and evaluating pairwise likelihood

Methodology 2023-07-12 v1 Computation

Abstract

As complex-survey data becomes more widely used in health and social-science research, there is increasing interest in fitting a wider range of regression models. We describe an implementation of two-level linear mixed models in R using the pairwise composite likelihood approach of Rao and co-workers. We discuss the computational efficiency of pairwise composite likelihood and compare the estimator to the existing stagewise pseudolikelihood estimator in simulations and in data from the PISA educational survey.

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@article{arxiv.2307.04944,
  title  = {Linear mixed models for complex survey data: implementing and evaluating pairwise likelihood},
  author = {Thomas Lumley and Xudong Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04944},
  year   = {2023}
}
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