Bias in gee estimates from misspecified models for longitudinal data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-32

  Emond, Mary Jane ^a   Ritz, John ^b   Oakes, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional model; Generalized estimating equations; Marginal model; Misspecification

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIAS APPROXIMATION; CONDITIONAL MODEL; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; MARGINAL MODEL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031375393     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708831899     Document Type: Article

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