On the estimation of the misclassification table for finite count data with an application in caries research

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-118

  Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a,b   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^c   Mwalili, Samuel M ^d   Declerck, Dominique ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Count data; Logistic regression; Misclassification; Prevalence; Response error

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449581234     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0800900201     Document Type: Article

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