A simple and exploratory way to determine the mean-variance relationship in generalized linear models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1623-1631

  Tsou, Tsung Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Generalized linear models; Robust regression

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINALYSIS; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREATININE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PROTEINURIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXTILES;

EID: 33947104574     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2632     Document Type: Article

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