A note on dichotomization of continuous response variable in the presence of contamination and model misspecification

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2200-2214

  Shentu, Yue ^a,b   Xie, Minge ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors in responses; Linear regression model; Logistic regression; Parameter estimation; Quantal regression; Robust method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DICHOTOMIZATION; KERNEL METHOD; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING ERROR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL SAMPLE; VARIANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 77956893117     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3966     Document Type: Article

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