# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2020, 3(4): 301-308. doi: 10.3934/mfc.2020012

## Aims: Average information matrix splitting

 1 Laboratory for Intelligent Computing and Financial Technology, Department of Mathematics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215123, China 2 Laboratory of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China

* Corresponding author: Shengxin Zhu

Received  November 2019 Revised  February 2020 Published  June 2020

Fund Project: This research is supported by Foundation of LCP(6142A05180501), Jiangsu Science and Technology Basic Research Program (BK20171237), Key Program Special Fund of XJTLU (KSF-E-21, KSF-P-02), Research Development Fund of XJTLU (RDF-2017-02-23) and partially supported by NSFC (No.11771002, 11571047, 11671049, 11671051, 6162003, and 11871339)

For linear mixed models with co-variance matrices which are not linearly dependent on variance component parameters, we prove that the average of the observed information and the Fisher information can be split into two parts. The essential part enjoys a simple and computational friendly formula, while the other part which involves a lot of computations is a random zero matrix and thus is negligible.

Citation: Shengxin Zhu, Tongxiang Gu, Xingping Liu. Aims: Average information matrix splitting. Mathematical Foundations of Computing, 2020, 3 (4) : 301-308. doi: 10.3934/mfc.2020012
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