An efficient MCEM algorithm for fitting generalized linear mixed models for correlated binary data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 929-943

  Tan, M ^a   Tian, G L ^a   Fang, H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated binary data; Data augmentation; Generalized linear mixed models; Gibbs sampler; Inverse Bayes formula; MCMC; Monte Carlo EM algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649023287     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360600843153     Document Type: Article

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