Analysis of repeated bouts of measurements in the framework of generalized estimating equations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 4114-4128

  Shults, Justine ^a   Mazurick, Carissa A ^b   Landis, J Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Generalized estimating equations; Poisson data; Pseudo likelihood; Quasi least squares; Repeated measures; Toeplitz structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINARY URGENCY;

CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAIN; URINATION;

EID: 33947621408     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2515     Document Type: Article

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