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Using the EM Algorithm to Estimate the Difference in Dependent Proportions in a 2 x 2 Table with Missing Data.Talla Souop, Alain Duclaux 18 August 2004 (has links) (PDF)
In this thesis, I am interested in estimating the difference between dependent proportions from a 2 × 2 contingency table when there are missing data. The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is used to obtain an estimate for the difference between correlated proportions. To obtain the standard error of this difference I employ a resampling technique known as bootstrapping. The performance of the bootstrap standard error is evaluated for different sample sizes and different fractions of missing information. Finally, a 100(1-α)% bootstrap confidence interval is proposed and its coverage is evaluated through simulation.
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