[R-sig-ME] Laplace approximation

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 16:29:43 CEST 2014


On 14-06-11 10:27 AM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am confused about the differences between PQL and Laplace
> approximations to GLMM (after all, Breslow and Calyton's `PQL paper'
> seems to describe a Laplace approximation). If anyone could point me to
> a review paper that summarises the literature on these approximations,
> and ideally their history, I would be very grateful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jarrod
> 


  Breslow 2003 "Whither PQL?" is pretty good, I think.



More information about the R-sig-mixed-models mailing list