Galindo-Garre, Francisca; Vermunt, Jeroen K.; Bergsma, … - In: Sociological Methods & Research 33 (2004) 1, pp. 88-117
When the sample size is small compared to the number of cells in a contingency table, maximum likelihood estimates of logit parameters and their associated standard errors may not exist or may be biased. This problem is usually solved by “smoothing†the estimates, assuming a certain...