Bias in estimating association parameters for longitudinal binary responses with drop-outs

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-21

  Fitzmaurice, Garrett M ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a,c   Molenberghs, Geert ^b   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized estimating equations; Missing data; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

DROPS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING;

BINARY RESPONSE; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DROP-OUT; EQUATION BASED; ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; MISSING DATA; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL; REPEATED MEASURES; SECOND ORDERS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0035105253     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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