Estimated estimating equations: Semiparametric inference for clustered and longitudinal data

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

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 531-553

  Chiou, Jeng Min ^a   Müller, Hans Georg ^b  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Generalized estimating equations; Generalized linear mixed model; Link selection; Marginal model; Quasi likelihood; Repeated measurements; Semiparametric regression; Smoothing; Variance covariance function

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144525561     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2005.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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