This course will discuss the concept of random effects, why they are called random effects and how they are incorporated in the framework of mixed models. The primary focus of the course will be to ...

Linear mixed models are emerging as the method of choice for association testing in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) because they account for both population stratification and cryptic ...

"First edition published in 2006." 1. Introduction -- What are linear mixed models (LMMs)? -- Models with random effects for clustered data -- Models for longitudinal or repeated-measures data -- A ...