The ability of individual organisms to alter morphological and life‐history traits in response to
the conditions they experience is an example of phenotypic plasticity which is fundamental …

Compared with linear mixed model-based genome-wide association (GWA) methods,
generalized linear mixed model (GLMM)-based methods have better statistical properties …

Applauded for its clarity, this accessible introduction helps readers apply multilevel
techniques to their research. The book also includes advanced extensions, making it useful …

Praise for the Second Edition" A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or
applications in categorical data analysis."—Statistics in Medicine" It is a total delight reading …

An up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of a classic text on missing data in statistics The
topic of missing data has gained considerable attention in recent decades. This new edition …

" This is a first-class book dealing with one of the most important areas of current research in
applied statistics the methods described are widely applicable the standard of exposition is …

Abstract Breslow and Clayton (J Am Stat Assoc 88: 9–25, 1993) was, and still is, a highly
influential paper mobilizing the use of generalized linear mixed models in epidemiology and …

Hidden Markov models—most often abbreviated to the acronym “HMMs”—are one of the
most successful statistical modelling ideas that have came up in the last forty years: the use …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

A general class of statistical models for a univariate response variable is presented which
we call the generalized additive model for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS). The model …