A likelihood reformulation method in non-normal random effects models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3105-3124

  Liu, Lei ^a   Yu, Zhangsheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma frailty model; Gaussian copula; Generalized linear mixed model; Heterogeneity model; Logistic distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; GAMMA DENSITY; HUMAN; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIXTURE DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD NORMAL DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 48049093037     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3153     Document Type: Article

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