A better lemon squeezer? Maximum-likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables

Psychological Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 54-71

  Smithson, Michael ^a,c   Verkuilen, Jay ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Generalized linear model; Heteroscedasticity; Regression; Variance

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33745612514     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.11.1.54     Document Type: Article

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