[R] Looking to maximize a conditional likelihood

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> writes:

> I want to maximize a conditional likelihood function that is basically
> logistic conditional on the number of successes within strata.  What
> would be a good starting place for this?  A complication is that the
> denominator includes a term that is the sum over all permutations.
> 
> Although there is no time dimension to the problem, it's possible a
> degenerate use of the Cox proportional hazards model (in the survival
> package of 1.7) will do what I want.

Did you check out clogit from the same package?

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