Variable selection with incomplete covariate data

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1062-1069

  Claeskens, Gerda ^a   Consentino, Fabrizio ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; EM algorithm; Missing covariates; Model selection; Takeuchi's information criterion

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTECTION;

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; CLASSICAL MODELING; COVARIATES; EXPECTATIONS MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION CRITERION; MISSING COVARIATE; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL SELECTION METHODS; TAKEUCHI INFORMATION CRITERIA; VARIABLES SELECTIONS;

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DIABETES; EYE DISEASE;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CRITERION VARIABLE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; SIMULATION;

EID: 56049125498     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01003.x     Document Type: Article

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