Reproductive dispersion linear models (RDLMs) include generalized linear model [Nelder and Wedderburn (1972). Generalized linear models. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 135, 370-384] as a special case. Some mild regularity conditions analogous to those given by Fahrmeir and Kaufmann [1985....

This paper studies a compound interval hypothesis about risk ratio in an incomplete correlated <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$2\times 2$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> table. Asymptotic test statistics of the Wald-type and the logarithmic transformation are proposed, with methods of the sample estimation and the constrained maximum likelihood...</equationsource></inlineequation>

We propose five confidence intervals for sensitivity difference of two continuous-scale diagnostic tests at the fixed level of two specificities based on the generalized pivotal quantity method, the hybrid method and the Bootstrap resampling method.

An empirical likelihood (EL) approach to inference on mean functionals with nonignorably missing response data is developed. The nonignorably missing mechanism is specified by an exponential tilting model. Several maximum EL estimators (MELEs) for the response mean functional are proposed under...

This paper develops the empirical likelihood (EL) inference on parameters and baseline function in a semiparametric nonlinear regression model for longitudinal data in the presence of missing response variables. We propose two EL-based ratio statistics for regression coefficients by introducing...

Joint models for longitudinal and survival data are often used to investigate the association between longitudinal data and survival data in many studies. A common assumption for joint models is that random effects are distributed as a fully parametric distribution such as multivariate normal...