Some properties of the Liang-Zeger method applied to clustered binary regression

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-58

  Balemi, Andrew ^a   Lee, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Binary regression; Clusters; Generalized estimating equations; Sandwich estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033409999     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00060     Document Type: Article

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