ANOVA for repeated ordinal data with small sample size? A comparison of ANOVA, MANOVA, WLS and GEE methods by simulation

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 357-375

  Stiger, Thomas R ^a   Kosinski, Andrzej S ^a   Barnhart, Huiman X ^a   Kleinbaum, David G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Generalized estimating equations; Ordered categorical data; Repeated measures; Serial correlation; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039401613     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813485     Document Type: Article

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