摘要：In this paper, we propose a score test for variance components in a semiparametric mixed-effects model when the random-effects and measurement errors are not normally distributed. The asymptotic null distribution of the test statistic is shown to be a simple chi-squared distribution with the degrees of freedom being the number of linearlyindependent variance components. The simulation results show that the proposed score test is robust against the nonnormality of the random-effects and the measurement errors and performs well in terms of both size and power. The score test is illustrated via an application to a real longitudinal data set collected in a clinical trial study.
关键词：extended quasi-likelihood; Laplace approximation; local linear smoothing; score test; semiparametric mixed-effects model; variance components
