A fresh look at the discriminant function approach for estimating crude or adjusted odds ratios

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 320-327

  Lyles, Robert H ^a   Guo, Ying ^a   Hill, Andrew N ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Efficiency; Logistic regression; Minimum variance unbiased estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450064690     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.08246     Document Type: Article

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