Re: st: Binomial regression

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 4 Aug 2007, at 22:21, Richard Goldstein wrote:
> I note that others have complained about failure to
> converge when using the log link (relative risk
> interpretation).  For those cases, there is a solution:
> use poisson regression with robust error variance;
> see Zou, G (2004), "A Modified Poisson regression
> approach to prospective studies with binary data,"
> _American Journal of Epidemiology_, 159: 702-706.
What a very useful observation! For those interested, Zou's paper is  
freely available here

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/159/7/702


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