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An asymptotic result of conditional logistic regression estimator

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  • Zhulin He
  • Yuyuan Ouyang

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In cluster-specific studies, ordinary logistic regression and conditional logistic regression for binary outcomes provide maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and conditional maximum likelihood estimator (CMLE), respectively. In this paper, we show that CMLE is approaching to MLE asymptotically when each individual data point is replicated infinitely many times. Our theoretical derivation is based on the observation that a term appearing in the conditional average log-likelihood function is the coefficient of a polynomial, and hence can be transformed to a complex integral by Cauchy’s differentiation formula. The asymptotic analysis of the complex integral can then be performed using the classical method of steepest descent. Our result implies that CMLE can be biased if individual weights are multiplied with a constant, and that we should be cautious when assigning weights to cluster-specific studies.

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  • Zhulin He & Yuyuan Ouyang, 2023. "An asymptotic result of conditional logistic regression estimator," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(13), pages 4729-4740, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lstaxx:v:52:y:2023:i:13:p:4729-4740
    DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2021.1999978
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