Bias-reduced and separation-proof conditional logistic regression with small or sparse data sets

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 770-777

  Heinze, Georg ^a   Puhr, Rainer ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Case control studies; Infinite estimates; Modified score function; Monotone likelihood; Penalized likelihood

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION;

ANEURYSM; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RATS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOFTWARE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 77949375519     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3794     Document Type: Article

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