Testing for order-restricted hypotheses in longitudinal data

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

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 437-455

  Pilla, Ramani S ^a   Qu, Annie ^b   Loader, Catherine ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Generalized estimating equations; Isotonic regression; Order restricted hypothesis; Quadratic inference function; Quadratic score test; Wald test; Weighted 2 distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646711407     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2006.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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