Research Article

A Computational Study Assessing Maximum Likelihood and Noniterative Methods for Estimating the Linear-by-Linear Parameter for Ordinal Log-Linear Models

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Plots showing the stability of Newton’s method for obtaining the MLE of 𝜙 and the four noniterative procedures in 1000 simulations of a 5 × 5 contingency table where 𝜙 = 0 . 3 .
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