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title: 'reconf: Confidence Intervals for Random Effect Parameters in Linear Mixed
  Models'
version: 0.2.0
doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.04181
abstract: Computes score-based confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for variance
  and covariance parameters of random effects in linear mixed models fitted with 'lme4'.
  The intervals invert a profile score statistic on the variance-covariance scale,
  with nuisance parameters estimated on an extended parameter set. The intervals have
  near-nominal coverage uniformly in the parameter, including near the boundary of
  the parameter space, where Wald and likelihood ratio intervals can be unreliable.
  The methods are described in Shedden and Ekvall (2026) <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.04181>,
  building on Ekvall and Bottai (2026) <https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asaf079>, Zhang,
  Ekvall, and Molstad (2025) <https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asaf010>, and Ekvall
  and Bottai (2022) <https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AOS2177>.
authors:
- family-names: Ekvall
  given-names: Karl Oskar
  email: k.o.ekvall@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: generic
  title: Score-based confidence intervals for variance-covariance parameters in linear
    mixed models
  authors:
  - family-names: Shedden
    given-names: Matias
  - family-names: Ekvall
    given-names: Karl Oskar
    email: k.o.ekvall@gmail.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.04181
  doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.04181
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/koekvall/reconf
commit: 5742be2116a45f491aee0ab9528fb0903b1f7de0
url: https://github.com/koekvall/reconf
date-released: '2026-10-21'
contact:
- family-names: Ekvall
  given-names: Karl Oskar
  email: k.o.ekvall@gmail.com