Assessing the performance of variational methods for mixed logistic regression models

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 765-779

  Rijmen, Frank ^a,b   Vomlel, Jiri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Lower bound approximation; Mixed models; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749118319     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650701282507     Document Type: Article

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