On the existence of maximum likelihood estimates in random effects models for clustered multivariate binary data
β Scribed by David Todem; KyungMann Kim
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0026-1335
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