Markov chain Monte Carlo exact inference for binomial and multinomial logistic regression models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-177

  Forster, Jonathan J ^a   McDonald, John W ^a   Smith, Peter W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional inference; Exact confidence interval; Exact test; Goodness of fit test; Logistic regression; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Residual analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347724149     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023212726863     Document Type: Article

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