[R] [OT] good reference for mixed models and EM algorithm

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Erin: 

      Have you looked at Pinheiro and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models 
in S and S-Plus (Springer)? 

      As far as I know, Doug Bates has been the leading innovator in 
this area for the past 20 years.  Pinheiro was one of his graduate 
students.  The 'nlme' package was developed  by him or under his 
supervision, and 'lme4' is his current development platform.  The 
"~R\library\scripts" subdirectory contains "ch01.R", "ch02.R", etc. = 
script files to work the examples in the book (where "~R" = your R 
installation directory).  There are other good books, but I recommend 
you start with Pinheiro and Bates. 

      Spencer Graves

Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> Sorry for the off-topic.  Could someone recommend a good reference for
> using the EM algorithm on mixed models, please?
>
> I've been looking and there are so many of them.  Perhaps someone here
> can narrow things down a bit.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>