Small-sample performance of the robust score test and its modifications in generalized estimating equations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 3479-3495

  Guo, Xu ^a,b   Pan, Wei ^a   Connett, John E ^a   Hannan, Peter J ^a   French, Simone A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Correlated data; GEE; Robust score test; Robust Wald test; Sandwich variance estimator

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 27844466696     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2161     Document Type: Article

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