An EM Algorithm for Estimating Equations

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-65

  Elashoff, Michael ^a   Ryan, Louise ^b  

^a Gene Logic   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized estimating equations; Missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842591331     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860043092     Document Type: Article

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