Modelling and estimating heterogeneous variances in threshold models for ordinal discrete data via Winbugs/Openbugs

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-27

  Foulley, Jean Louis ^a   Jaffrézic, Florence ^a  

^a Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

GLMM; Heteroscedasticity; Mixed models; Openbugs; Ordered categorical data; Winbugs

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DISCRETE DATA; GIBBS SAMPLING; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; MIXED MODELS; MODEL COMPARISON; ORDERED CATEGORICAL DATA; P-VALUES; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; THRESHOLD MODEL; VARIANCE MODELS;

BIT ERROR RATE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FUZZY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 73649102070     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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