Consistency of maximum likelihood estimators in general random effects models for binary data
二元数据一般随机效应模型的极大似然一致性
We consider a general random effects model for repeated binary measures, assuming a latent linear model with any class of mixing distributions. The latent model is assumed to have the Laird-Ware structure, but the random effects may be from any specified class of multivariate distributions and the error vector may have any specified continuous distribution. Elementwise threshold crossing then gives the observed vector of binary outcomes. Special cases of this model include…