Maximum likelihood estimation of marginal pairwise associations with multiple source predictors

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 860-875

  O'Brien, Liam M ^a   Fitzmaurice, Garrett M ^b,c   Horton, Nicholas J ^d  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Log linear models; Mixed parameter transform; Multiple informants; Multivariate logistic transform

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MIXED PARAMETER TRANSFORM; MULTIPLE INFORMANT; MULTIPLE SOURCE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC TRANSFORM; PARAMETER TRANSFORM;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 33750521146     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200510227     Document Type: Article

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