Inference for Subgroup Analysis With a Structured Logistic-Normal Mixture Model

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 509, 2015, Pages 303-312

  Shen, Juan ^a   He, Xuming ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Homogeneity test; Likelihood ratio test; Subgroup identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928266330     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.894763     Document Type: Article

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