On improved EM algorithm and confidence interval construction for incomplete r × c tables

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2919-2933

  Tang, Man Lai ^a   Wang Ng, Kai ^b   Tian, Guo Liang ^c   Tan, Ming ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence interval; Convergence rate; Data augmentation; EM algorithm; Incomplete data; Paired binary data; Small sample size

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOOTSTRAP; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVERGENCE RATE; DATA AUGMENTATION; EM ALGORITHMS; PAIRED BINARY DATA;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 33846633805     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.11.035     Document Type: Article

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