A diagnostic test for the mixing distribution in a generalised linear mixed model

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1003-1010

  Tchetgen, Eric J ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered binary data; Conditional maximum likelihood; Marginal maximum likelihood; Specification test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845745281     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.4.1003     Document Type: Article

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