The Gamma-Frailty Poisson Model for the Nonparametric Estimation of Panel Count Data

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1099-1106

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Jamshidian, Mortaza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Isotonic regression; Iterative convex minorant algorithm; Monte Carlo; Nonparametric maximum pseudo likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; STATISTICS;

COUNTING PROCESS; EM ALGORITHMS; ISOTONIC REGRESSION; ITERATIVE CONVEX MINORANT ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; MONTE-CARLO; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; NONPARAMETRICS; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

REGRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; METHANOBACTERIALES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

METHANOBACTERIALES;

EID: 0346733294     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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