Empirical Bayes estimation for logistic regression and extended parametric regression models

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-249

  Piegorsch, Walter W ^a   Casella, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditionally independent hierarchical models; Confidence intervals; Correlated binary data; Environmental mutagenesis; Environmental toxicology; Extended link function; Generalized linear models; Litter effect; Nonlinear regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000074973     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400367     Document Type: Article

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