Generalized estimating equations for ordinal categorical data: Arbitrary patterns of missing responses and missingness in a key covariate

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 488-496

  Toledano, Alicia Y ^a   Gatsonis, Constantine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized estimating equations; Missing data; Ordinal categorical data; Ordinal regression; Receiver operating characteristic curves; Repeated measures; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS;

ARBITRARY PATTERNS; CATEGORICAL DATA; COVARIATES; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; MISSING DATA; ORDINAL CATEGORICAL DATA; ORDINAL REGRESSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; REPEATED MEASURES; VERIFICATION BIAS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032967655     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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