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Comments about Joint Modeling of Cluster Size and Binary and Continuous Subunit-Specific Outcomes.

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Gueorguieva, RV
Published in: Biometrics
September 2005

In longitudinal studies and in clustered situations often binary and continuous response variables are observed and need to be modeled together. In a recent publication Dunson, Chen, and Harry (2003, Biometrics 59, 521-530) (DCH) propose a Bayesian approach for joint modeling of cluster size and binary and continuous subunit-specific outcomes and illustrate this approach with a developmental toxicity data example. In this note we demonstrate how standard software (PROC NLMIXED in SAS) can be used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates in an alternative parameterization of the model with a single cluster-level factor considered by DCH for that example. We also suggest that a more general model with additional cluster-level random effects provides a better fit to the data set. An apparent discrepancy between the estimates obtained by DCH and the estimates obtained earlier by Catalano and Ryan (1992, Journal of the American Statistical Association 87, 651-658) is also resolved. The issue of bias in inferences concerning the dose effect when cluster size is ignored is discussed. The maximum-likelihood approach considered herein is applicable to general situations with multiple clustered or longitudinally measured outcomes of different type and does not require prior specification and extensive programming.

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Biometrics

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1541-0420

ISSN

0006-341X

Publication Date

September 2005

Volume

61

Issue

3

Start / End Page

862 / 866

Related Subject Headings

  • Statistics & Probability
  • Software
  • Pregnancy
  • Models, Statistical
  • Models, Biological
  • Mice
  • Female
  • Ethylene Glycol
  • Embryonic Development
  • Cluster Analysis
 

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Gueorguieva, R. V. (2005). Comments about Joint Modeling of Cluster Size and Binary and Continuous Subunit-Specific Outcomes. Biometrics, 61(3), 862–866. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-020x.2005.00409_1.x
Gueorguieva, Ralitza V. “Comments about Joint Modeling of Cluster Size and Binary and Continuous Subunit-Specific Outcomes.Biometrics 61, no. 3 (September 2005): 862–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-020x.2005.00409_1.x.
Gueorguieva, Ralitza V. “Comments about Joint Modeling of Cluster Size and Binary and Continuous Subunit-Specific Outcomes.Biometrics, vol. 61, no. 3, Sept. 2005, pp. 862–66. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1541-020x.2005.00409_1.x.
Journal cover image

Published In

Biometrics

DOI

EISSN

1541-0420

ISSN

0006-341X

Publication Date

September 2005

Volume

61

Issue

3

Start / End Page

862 / 866

Related Subject Headings

  • Statistics & Probability
  • Software
  • Pregnancy
  • Models, Statistical
  • Models, Biological
  • Mice
  • Female
  • Ethylene Glycol
  • Embryonic Development
  • Cluster Analysis