Extending the simple linear regression model to account for correlated responses: An introduction to generalized estimating equations and multi-level mixed modelling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1261-1291

  Burton, Paul ^a,c   Gurrin, Lyle ^b,c   Sly, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORY; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; CHILD; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0032526166     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980615)17:11<1261::AID-SIM846>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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