Multinomial logit bias reduction via the Poisson log-linear model

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 755-759

  Kosmidis, Ioannis ^a   Firth, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jeffreys prior; Leverage; Logistic linear regression; Poisson trick

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052291818     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr026     Document Type: Article

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