Multilevel models with multivariate mixed response types

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-197

  Goldstein, Harvey ^a   Carpenter, James ^b   Kenward, Michael G ^b   Levin, Kate A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Data augmentation; Data coarsening; Latent Gaussian model; Maximum indicant model; MCMC; Missing data; Mixed response models; Multilevel; Multiple imputation; Multivariate; Normalising transformations; Partially known values; Prediction; Prior informed imputation; Probit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049094081     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0800900301     Document Type: Article

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