Confidence intervals after multiple imputation: Combining profile likelihood information from logistic regressions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 5062-5076

  Heinze, Georg ^a   Ploner, Meinhard ^b   Beyea, Jan ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Data plonercom ^*  (Italy)

^c Senior Scientist Emeritus   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Missing covariate values; Non convergence of maximum likelihood estimation; Penalized likelihood; Small samples

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION OF PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD PROFILE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; RUBIN RULE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

BIAS REDUCTION; MISSING COVARIATE VALUES; NON-CONVERGENCE OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; SMALL SAMPLES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84887260365     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5899     Document Type: Article

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