Sequential confidence regions of generalized linear models with adaptive designs

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 277-293

  Ivan Chang, Yuan Chin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Canonical link function; Computerized adaptive testing; Generalized linear models; Last time; Martingale differences; Maximum quasi likelihood estimate; Primary 62F12; Secondary 62J05

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042694322     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00200-7     Document Type: Article

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