Direct Likelihood Approximations for Generalized Linear Mixed Models. An Adaptive Approach

In both systems, the programmer must supply information about which variables are shared and which are not, and must also provide protocol information in Munin and association information in Midway. Errors in these annotations can have serious consequences. By going further in the direction of a high-level programming model, DSM systems can be made easier and less error prone to program. Access to shared variables and synchronization using them can also be integrated more cleanly. In some cases, certain optimizations can also be introduced that are more difficult to perform in a less abstract programming model. 6.6.1. Objects An object is a programmer-defined encapsulated data structure, as depicted in Fig. 6-34. It consists of internal data, the object state, and procedures, called methods or operations, that operate on the object state. To access or operate on the internal state, the program must invoke one of the methods. The method can change the internal state, return (part of) the state, or something else ...»