"Mixed modeling is one of the most promising and exciting areas of statistical analysis, enabling the analysis of nontraditional, clustered data that may come in the form of shapes or images. This book provides in-depth mathematical coverage of mixed models' statistical properties and numerical algorithms, as well as applications such as the analysis of tumor regrowth, shape, and image. The new edition includes significant updating, over 300 exercises,...

"The new edition of this "essential desktop reference book. [that] should definitely be on your bookshelf" (Technometrics) features a newly reorganized approach to linear regression that promotes the understanding of theory and models concurrently, featuring newly-developed topics in the field and the use of software applications. It includes numerous exercises; graphics and computations developed using JMP software; a new chapter on recent developments...