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Table 1 Extra abilities of different packages

From: Logistic random effects regression models: a comparison of statistical packages for binary and ordinal outcomes

Package

Program/function/option

Link function

Obtaining the random effects

Handling ordinal proportional odds model

Modeling cross-classified model

Other than normal random effects

  

Probit model

Log

(-log) model

    

R

LME4

  

X

 

X

 
 

MCMCglmm

X

 

X

X*

X

 

Stata

GLLAMM

X

X

X

X

  

MIXOR

MIXOR

X

X

 

X

  

SAS

NLMIXED

X

X

X

X

  
 

GLIMMIX

X

X

X

X

X

 
 

MCMC

X

X

X

   

MLwiN

[R]IGLS or MCMC

X

X

X

X

X

 

WinBUGS

MCMC

X

X

X

X

X

X

  1. *: only probit model is available in MCMCglmm for ordinal model.
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