Efficient Monte Carlo Methods for Conditional Logistic Regression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 449, 2000, Pages 99-108

  Mehta, Cyrus R ^a   Patel, Nitin R ^b   Senchaudhuri, Pralay ^a  

^a Cytel Incorporated   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact Logistic Regression; MCMC; Network Algorithms; Single Saddlepoint; Smart Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293931     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10473906     Document Type: Article

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