SELECTION CRITERIA BASED ON MONTE CARLO SIMULATION AND CROSS VALIDATION IN MIXED MODELS

Junfeng Shang (U. S. A.)

Received October 17, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: Akaike information criterion (AIC), improved AIC (AICi), predictive divergence criterion (PDC), Kullback-Leibler discrepancy.