Comparison of GEE, MINQUE, ML, and REML estimating equations for normally distributed data

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-130

  Wu, Chi Tsung ^a   Gumpertz, Marcia L ^b   Boos, Dennis D ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Estimated generalized least squares; Generalized estimating equations; Marginal model; Variance covariance parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035627591     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001750358608     Document Type: Article

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