Regression analysis of longitudinal binary data with time-dependent environmental covariates: Bias and efficiency

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 633-652

  Schildcrout, Jonathan S ^a   Heagerty, Patrick J ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ALR; Bias variance trade off; GEE; Longitudinal data; Marginal model

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 26644474115     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi033     Document Type: Article

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