| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Author: |
BöhningDankmar, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
KuhnertRonny, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
RattanasiriSasivimol, |
| Place of Publication: |
Boca Raton |
| Published: |
CRC Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2008 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 190 p.)ill : |
| Series: |
Chapman & Hall/CRC interdisciplinary statistics series |
| Subject: |
Meta-analysis - |
| Subject: |
Medicine - Research - |
| Subject: |
Social sciences - Statistical methods - |
| Subject: |
Electronic books - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/978-1-58488-630-3 |
| Notes: |
"A Chapman & Hall book." |
| Summary: |
Focuses on the analysis and modeling of a meta-analysis with individually pooled data. This book explores alternatives to the profile likelihood method, including approximated likelihood and multilevel models, and shows how the nonparametric profile maximum likelihood estimator can be computed via the EM algorithm with a gradient function update |
| ISBN: |
9781420011333electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1420011332electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
hbk. |
| ISBN: |
hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; CHAPTER 2: The basic model; CHAPTER 3: Modeling unobserved heterogeneity; CHAPTER 4: Modeling covariate information; CHAPTER 5: Alternative approaches; CHAPTER 6: Incorporating covariate information and unobserved heterogeneity; CHAPTER 7: Working with CAMAP; CHAPTER 8: Estimation of odds ratio using the profile likelihood; CHAPTER 9: Quantification of heterogeneity in a MAIPD; CHAPTER 10: Scrapie in Europe: a multicountry surveillance study as a MAIPD; APPENDIX A; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index |