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Re: Sum of dependent and non-identically distributed Bernoulli's

To: Abderrahim Oulhaj <abderrahim.oulhaj@pharmacology.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Sum of dependent and non-identically distributed Bernoulli's
From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@pdf.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:08:57 +0900
Cc: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
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Have you considered Fahrmeir and Tutz (2001) Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear Models, 2nd ed. (Springer)? This book focuses primarily on multinomial responses, but their results apply for bernoulli variates, which they also consider in some examples. Ch. 6 discusses "Fixed Parameter Models for Time Series and Longitudinal Data", with especially categorical response variables. Ch. 8 considers "State Space and Hidden Markov Models".

Can you tell us more about your application(s)? I'm currently using library(mvtnorm) to provide a latent variable model driving a bernoulli process. I have not yet estimated parameters for this kind of model, but it look like it should be fairly straightforward.

          hope this helps.
          spencer graves

Abderrahim Oulhaj wrote:

Dear All,

I am looking for any statistical method or any related reference for modelling the sum of n dependent and non-identically distributed bernoulli variables (i.e. the probability of succes is not constant) for relatively small n (i.e. no central limit theroem can be used)....


Many thanks,

Abderrahim

Abderrahim Oulhaj, Phd in Statistics
Oxford University
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