Chen, Le; Yuan, Ao; Liu, Aiyi; Chen, Guanjie - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 41 (2014) 9, pp. 2001-2010
The mixed random effect model is commonly used in longitudinal data analysis within either frequentist or Bayesian framework. Here we consider a case, in which we have prior knowledge on partial parameters, while no such information on the rest of the parameters. Thus, we use the hybrid approach...