Effect of omitted confounders on the analysis of correlated binary data

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 678-689

  Chao, Wei Hsiung ^a,b   Palta, Mari ^a   Young, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confounding; Generalized estimating equations; Generalized linear models; Longitudinal data; Model misspecification; Population averaged models

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RISK PERCEPTION;

AVERAGED MODELS; BINARY DATA; CONFOUNDER; CONFOUNDING; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MARGINAL MODELS; MODEL MISSPECIFICATION; POPULATION AVERAGED MODEL;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; SLEEP DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0030901785     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533967     Document Type: Article

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