An empirical investigation of different operating characteristics of several estimators of the intraclass correlation in the analysis of binary data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 507-523

  Paul, Sudhir R ^a   Saha, Krishna K ^a   Balasooriya, Uditha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Bias; Efficiency; Intraclass correlation; Mean squared error; Mixture of two binomial distributions; Probit normal binomial; Quadratic estimating equations; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038130764     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0094965021000050883     Document Type: Review

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