Multivariate Generalized Linear Mixed Models Using R

Introduction

Generalized Linear Models for Continuous/Interval Scale Data
Introduction
Continuous/interval scale data
Simple and multiple linear regression models
Checking assumptions in linear regression models
Likelihood: multiple linear regression
Comparing model likelihoods
Application of a multiple linear regression model

Generalized Linear Models for Other Types of Data
Binary data
Ordinal data
Count data

Family of Generalized Linear Models
Introduction
The linear model
Binary response models
Poisson model
Likelihood

Mixed Models for Continuous/Interval Scale Data
Introduction
Linear mixed model
The intraclass correlation coefficient
Parameter estimation by maximum likelihood
Regression with level-two effects
Two-level random intercept models
General two-level models including random intercepts
Likelihood
Residuals
Checking assumptions in mixed models
Comparing model likelihoods
Application of a two-level linear model
Two-level growth models
Likelihood
Example on linear growth models

Mixed Models for Binary Data
Introduction
The two-level logistic model
General two-level logistic models
Intraclass correlation coefficient
Likelihood
Example on binary data

Mixed Models for Ordinal Data
Introduction
The two-level ordered logit model
Likelihood
Example on mixed models for ordered data

Mixed Models for Count Data
Introduction
The two-level Poisson model
Likelihood
Example on mixed models for count data

Family of Two-Level Generalized Linear Models
Introduction
The mixed linear model
Mixed binary response models
Mixed Poisson model
Likelihood

Three-Level Generalized Linear Models
Introduction
Three-level random intercept models
Three-level generalized linear models
Linear models
Binary response models
Likelihood
Example on three-level generalized linear models

Models for Multivariate Data
Introduction
Multivariate two-level generalized linear model
Bivariate Poisson model: Example
Bivariate ordered response model: Example
Bivariate linear-probit model: Example
Multivariate two-level generalized linear model likelihood

Models for Duration and Event History Data
Introduction
Duration data in discrete time
Renewal data
Competing risk data

Stayers, Non-Susceptibles, and Endpoints
Introduction
Mover-stayer model
Likelihood with mover-stayer model
Example 1: Stayers in Poisson data
Example 2: Stayers in binary data

Handling Initial Conditions/State Dependence in Binary Data
Introduction to key issues: heterogeneity, state dependence and non-stationarity
Motivational example
Random effects model
Initial conditions problem
Initial treatment of initial conditions problem
Example: Depression data
Classical conditional analysis
Classical conditional model: Depression example
Conditioning on initial response but allowing random effect u_0j to be dependent on z_j
Wooldridge conditional model: Depression example
Modeling the initial conditions
Same random effect in the initial response and subsequent response models with a common scale parameter
Joint analysis with a common random effect: Depression example
Same random effect in models of the initial response and subsequent responses but with different scale parameters
Joint analysis with a common random effect (different scale parameters): Depression example
Different random effects in models of the initial response and subsequent responses
Different random effects: Depression example
Embedding the Wooldridge approach in joint models for the initial response and subsequent responses
Joint model plus the Wooldridge approach: Depression example
Other link functions

Incidental Parameters: An Empirical Comparison of Fixed Effects and Random Effects Models
Introduction
Fixed effects treatment of the two-level linear model
Dummy variable specification of the fixed effects model
Empirical comparison of two-level fixed effects and random effects estimators
Implicit fixed effects estimator
Random effects models
Comparing two-level fixed effects and random effects models
Fixed effects treatment of the three-level linear model

Appendix A: SabreR Installation, SabreR Commands, Quadrature, Estimation, Endogenous Effects
Appendix B: Introduction to R for Sabre

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