Generalized Linear Mixed Models - Stroup, Walter W

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Résumé :
Generalized Linear Mixed Models : Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications presents an introduction to linear modeling using the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) as an overarching conceptual framework. For readers new to linear models, the book helps them see the big picture. It shows how linear models fit with the rest of the core statistics curriculum and points out the major issues that statistical modelers must consider. Along with describing common applications of GLMMs, the text introduces the essential theory and main methodology associated with linear models that accommodate random model effects and non-Gaussian data. Unlike traditional linear model textbooks that focus on normally distributed data, this one adopts a generalized mixed model approach throughout : data for linear modeling need not be normally distributed and effects may be fixed or random. Features. Provides a true introduction to linear modeling that assumes data need not be normally distributed and assumes random model effects to be the rule not an advanced exception. Emphasizes the connection between study design and all aspects of the model. Includes a chapter on GLMM-based power and sample size assessment - a critical tool for cost-effective design of research studies. Gives in-depth treatments of issues unique to generalized and mixed linear modeling, including conditional versus marginal modeling, broad versus narrow inference space, and data versus model-scale inference and reporting. With numerous examples using SAS® PROC GLIMMIX, this book is ideal for graduate students in statistics, statistics professionals seeking to update their knowledge. and researchers new to the generalized linear model thought process. It focuses on data-driven processes and provides context for extending traditional linear model thinking to generalized linear mixed modeling.

Walter Stroup is a leading authority on GLMMs for applied statisticians, especially as implemented in the SAS programming environment. He offers a thorough, engaging, and opinionated treatment of the subject ... I found the 'fully general' GLMM approach to modeling and design issues (Chapters 1 and 2) to be quite illuminating. ... it is best to use this text in conjunction with SAS. Prospective readers without current access to SAS will be pleased to know that a reasonable level of access to SAS is now available at no cost to students and teachers on the web ... If the reader prefers to work with GLMMs in the free, powerful, and state-of-the-art R environment, then he/she should supplement this text with some others that are built around R. I myself had good luck using Stroup's text along with Julian Faraway's two books Linear Models with R and Expanding the Linear Model with R, both published by CRC Press. -Homer White, MAA Reviews, June 2013 ... for SAS users concerned with the analysis of trials, it is a very good resource. There are excellent discussions on many important concepts such as likelihood ratio testing and model selection criteria. PROC GLIMMIX is a powerful procedure implementing the rich family of GLMMs, and this book gives coverage to a wide variety of models with ample software illustration. -Gillian Z. Heller, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2013