Pseudolikelihood Modeling of Multivariate Outcomes in Developmental Toxicology
发育毒理学中多元结局的伪似然建模
The primary goal of this article is to determine benchmark doses based on the ethylene glycol study, which comprises data from a developmental toxicity study in mice. Because the data involve a vector of malformation indicators, a flexible model for multivariate clustered data is required. An exponential family model is considered and pseudolikelihood-based inferential tools are proposed, hence avoiding excessive computational requirements.