On familial longitudinal Poisson mixed models with gamma random effects

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 398-412

  Sutadhar, Brajendra C ^a   Jowaheer, Vandna ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Longitudinal correlations; Mixed effects; Multi dimensional count data; Quasikelihood; Regression effects; Repeated count repsonses; Variance component of the random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345060813     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-259X(03)00062-9     Document Type: Article

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