Robust estimating functions and bias correction for longitudinal data analysis

Biometrics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 684-691

  Wang, You Gan ^a,b   Lin, Xu ^b,c   Zhu, Min ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Research Unit   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bias; Estimating functions; Longitudinal data; M estimation; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

BIAS; BIAS CORRECTION; ESTIMATING FUNCTIONS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; M-ESTIMATION; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; ROBUST ESTIMATION; ROBUST METHODS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

DATA PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PROGABIDE;

AGE FACTORS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SEIZURES;

EID: 27744460913     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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