Marginal Models : For Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

Wicher Bergsma

ISBN 10: 0387096094 / ISBN 13: 9780387096094

Edité par Springer New York Apr 2009, 2009

Neuware - Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of marginal modeling and offers a wide range of possible applications. Marginal models are often the best choice for answering important research questions when dependent observations are involved, as the many real world examples in this book show.In the social, behavioral, educational, economic, and biomedical sciences, data are often collected in ways that introduce dependencies in the observations to be compared. For example, the same respondents are interviewed at several occasions, several members of networks or groups are interviewed within the same survey, or, within families, both children and parents are investigated. Statistical methods that take the dependencies in the data into account must then be used, e.g., when observations at time one and time two are compared in longitudinal studies. At present, researchers almost automatically turn to multi-level models or to GEE estimation to deal with these dependencies. Despite the enormous potential and applicability of these recent developments, they require restrictive assumptions on the nature of the dependencies in the data. The marginal models of this book provide another way of dealing with these dependencies, without the need for such assumptions, and can be used to answer research questions directly at the intended marginal level. The maximum likelihood method, with its attractive statistical properties, is used for fitting the models.This book has mainly been written with applied researchers in mind. It includes many real world examples, explains the types of research questions for which marginal modeling is useful, and provides a detailed description of how to apply marginal models for a great diversity of research questions. All these examples are presented on the book's website (cmm.st), along with user friendly programs. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780387096094

Synopsis :

This book is intended for social scientists who have an interest in and thorough basic knowledge of quantitative research.

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Titre : Marginal Models : For Dependent, Clustered, ...
Éditeur : Springer New York Apr 2009
Date d'édition : 2009
Reliure : Buch
Etat : Neu