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  <dc:title>Using Fence Methods for Model Selection</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package fence version 1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>This method is a new class of model selection strategies, 
    for mixed model selection, which includes linear and generalized linear 
    mixed models. The idea involves a procedure to isolate a subgroup of what 
    are known as correct models (of which the optimal model is a member). This is 
    accomplished by constructing a statistical fence, or barrier, to carefully 
    eliminate incorrect models. Once the fence is constructed, the optimal model is 
    selected from among those within the fence according to a criterion which can 
    be made flexible.
    References: 
    1. Jiang J., Rao J.S., Gu Z., Nguyen T. (2008),  Fence Methods for Mixed Model Selection. 
    The Annals of Statistics, 36(4): 1669-1692.  
    &lt;DOI:10.1214/07-AOS517&gt; &lt;https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1216237296&gt;.
    2. Jiang J., Nguyen T., Rao J.S. (2009), A Simplified Adaptive Fence Procedure. 
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 625-629.  
    &lt;DOI:10.1016/j.spl.2008.10.014&gt; &lt;https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23991417_A_simplified_adaptive_fence_procedure&gt;
    3. Jiang J., Nguyen T., Rao J.S. (2010), Fence Method for Nonparametric Small Area Estimation. 
    Survey Methodology, 36(1), 3-11.  
    &lt;http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2010/statcan/12-001-X/12-001-x2010001-eng.pdf&gt;.
    4. Jiming Jiang, Thuan Nguyen and J. Sunil Rao (2011), Invisible fence methods and the identification of differentially expressed gene sets. 
    Statistics and Its Interface, Volume 4, 403-415.
    &lt;http://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/files/_fulltext/journals/sii/2011/0004/0003/SII-2011-0004-0003-a014.pdf&gt;.
    5. Thuan Nguyen &amp; Jiming Jiang (2012), Restricted fence method for covariate selection in longitudinal data analysis. 
    Biostatistics, 13(2), 303-314.  
    &lt;DOI:10.1093/biostatistics/kxr046&gt; &lt;https://academic.oup.com/biostatistics/article/13/2/303/263903/Restricted-fence-method-for-covariate-selection-in&gt;.
    6. Thuan Nguyen, Jie Peng, Jiming Jiang (2014), Fence Methods for Backcross Experiments.  
    Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84(3), 644-662.  
    &lt;DOI:10.1080/00949655.2012.721885&gt; &lt;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891925/&gt;.
    7. Jiang, J. (2014), The fence methods, in Advances in Statistics, Hindawi Publishing Corp., Cairo.  
    &lt;DOI:10.1155/2014/830821&gt;.
    8. Jiming Jiang and Thuan Nguyen (2015), The Fence Methods, World Scientific, Singapore.  
    &lt;https://www.abebooks.com/9789814596060/Fence-Methods-Jiming-Jiang-981459606X/plp&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 2.10)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: MASS, stats, lme4, ggplot2, compiler, sae, fields, grDevices,
snowfall, snow</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: pscl</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Thuan Nguyen &lt;nguythua@ohsu.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Jiming Jiang, Jianyang Zhao, J. Sunil Rao, Thuan Nguyen</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fence/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2017-07-01</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fence</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.fence</dc:identifier>
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