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SEMIPARAMETRIC QUASI-BAYESIAN BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURES FOR DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOMES

Liu, Yiying
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case158697570309321

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
We propose a new semiparametric resampling procedure, a variation of the Quasi-Bayesian bootstrap, for inference in the case of a single population proportion and for comparing two independent population proportions. This semiparametric quasi-Bayesian (SQB) bootstrap offers an attractive alternative to the existing nonparametric and parametric bootstrap procedures. In our approach, we consider proportions as Beta-distributed random variables, with parameter values determined using sample proportions and sample size. Variance estimates and confidence intervals (for proportions and odds ratios) are obtained in a two-stage Monte Carlo approach in which proportions are drawn from Betas and samples (or sample proportions) then obtained given the drawn proportions. The method extends to the inference for coefficients of a continuous predictor in the logistic regression. The idea is to account for sampling variability, and to reduce risk in the estimation of variances, particularly for small size samples (n≤20). We present results of simulation studies showing that the SQB variance estimators and confidence intervals outperform those of standard approaches based on mean square error (MSE) and confidence interval width, respectively. The method is applied to data from a cohort study of dental caries in children.
Jeffrey Albert (Advisor)
Mark Schluchter (Committee Chair)
Abdus Sattar (Committee Member)
Suchitra Nelson (Committee Member)
99 p.
Biostatistics

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  • Liu, Y. (2020). SEMIPARAMETRIC QUASI-BAYESIAN BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURES FOR DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOMES [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case158697570309321

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Liu, Yiying. SEMIPARAMETRIC QUASI-BAYESIAN BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURES FOR DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOMES . 2020. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case158697570309321.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Liu, Yiying. "SEMIPARAMETRIC QUASI-BAYESIAN BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURES FOR DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOMES ." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case158697570309321

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