AN evaluation of non-iterative methods for estimating the linear-by-linear parameter of ordinal log-linear models

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 335-352

  Beh, Eric J ^a   Farver, Thomas B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association model; Contingency table; Newton's method; Ordered categorical variable; Orthogonal polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949096932     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2009.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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