[R-sig-ME] Interesting Paper(s)

[Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)]

Dear All,

I just noticed this paper, which may be of interest to some of the readers of this list:

Li, B., Lingsma, H. F., Steyerberg, E. W., & Lesaffre, E. (2011). Logistic random effects regression models: A comparison of statistical packages for binary and ordinal outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11(77). http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2288-11-77.pdf

lme4 and MCMCglmm are discussed along a number of other software options.

Also, some other papers have been mentioned on this list before. Just in case you missed that and are interested, links are below:

Zhang, H., Lu, N., Feng, C., Thurston, S. W., Xia, Y., Zhu, L., et al. (in press). On fitting generalized linear mixed-effects models for binary responses using different statistical packages. Statistics in Medicine. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.4265/full

Austin, P. C. (2010). Estimating multilevel logistic regression models when the number of clusters is low: A comparison of different statistical software procedures. International Journal of Biostatistics, 6(1). http://www.bepress.com/ijb/vol6/iss1/16/

Best,

Wolfgang