A note on the estimation of the multinomial logistic model with correlated responses in SAS.
We show how multinomial logistic models with correlated responses can be estimated within SAS software. To achieve this, random effects and marginal models are introduced and the respective SAS code is given. An example data set on physicians' recommendations and preferences in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation is used for illustration. The main motivation for this work are two recent papers that recommend estimating multinomial logistic models with correlated responses by using a Poisson likelihood which is statistically correct but computationally inefficient.
Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Informatics, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 06097 Halle (Saale), Germany. Oliver.Kuss@medizin.uni-halle.de
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