Practical Small-Sample Asymptotics for Regression Problems

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 643-654

  Strawderman, Robert L ^a   Casella, George ^b   Wells, Martin T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Estimating equation; Generalized linear model; Gibbs sampling; Logistic regression; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monte Carlo integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030543963     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476933     Document Type: Article

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