Type I and type II error under random-effects misspecification in generalized linear mixed models

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1038-1044

  Litière, Saskia ^a   Alonso, Ariel ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Logistic random intercept model; Maximum likelihood; Robustness; Sandwich estimator

Indexed keywords

RANDOM ERRORS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS; LOGISTIC RANDOM-INTERCEPT MODEL; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; MISSPECIFICATION; NON-GAUSSIAN; RANDOM EFFECTS; ROBUSTNESS; SANDWICH ESTIMATOR; TYPE I AND TYPE II ERRORS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODEL; PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 36749002202     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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