Bias correction in logistic regression with missing categorical covariates

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2478-2485

  Das, Ujjwal ^a   Maiti, Tapabrata ^b   Pradhan, Vivek ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; EM algorithm; Maximum likelihood estimation; Missing at random

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952545665     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.02.018     Document Type: Article

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