Saddlepoint approximations for small sample logistic regression problems

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 323-334

  Platt, Robert W ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0034651981     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000215)19:3<323::AID-SIM372>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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