A note on obtaining correct marginal predictions from a random intercepts model for binary outcomes

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pavlou, Menelaos ^a   Ambler, Gareth ^a   Seaman, Shaun ^b   Omar, Rumana Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Marginal predictions; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84938520011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-015-0046-6     Document Type: Article

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