Improved approximations for multilevel models with binary responses

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 505-513

  Goldstein, Harvey ^a   Rasbash, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary response; Generalized linear model; Hierarchical data; Marginal model; Multilevel model; Quasi likelihood; Unit specific model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039862130     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983328     Document Type: Article

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