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Clustered data analysis under miscategorized ordinal outcomes and missing covariates
Author(s) -
Roy Surupa,
Rana Subrata,
Das Kalyan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.6599
Subject(s) - covariate , missing data , ordinal data , statistics , ordinal regression , computer science , econometrics , mathematics
The primary objective in this article is to look into the analysis of clustered ordinal model where complete information on one or more covariates cease to occur. In addition, we also focus on the analysis of miscategorized data that occur in many situations as outcomes are often classified into a category that does not truly reflect its actual state. A general model structure is assumed to accommodate the information that is obtained via surrogate variables. The theoretical motivation actually developed while encountering an orthodontic data to investigate the effects of age, sex and food habit on the extent of plaque deposit. The model we propose is quite flexible and is capable of tackling those additional noises like miscategorization and missingness, which occur in the data most frequently. A new two‐step approach has been proposed to estimate the parameters of model framed. A rigorous simulation study has also been carried out to justify the validity of the model taken up for analysis. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.