Building adaptive estimating equations when inverse of covariance estimation is difficult

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-142

  Qu, Annie ^a   Lindsay, Bruce G ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate gradient; Generalized estimating equations; Generalized method of moments; Infill asymptotics; Longitudinal data; Quadratic inference function; Quasi likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141799712     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00376     Document Type: Article

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