Mary J. Lindstrom, Douglas M. Bates, Newton-Raphson and EM Algorithms for Linear Mixed-Effects Models for Repeated-Measures Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 83, No. 404 (Dec., 1988), pp. 1014-1022
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