A comparison of two bias-corrected covariance estimators for generalized estimating equations

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 935-941

  Lu, Bing ^a   Preisser, John S ^b   Qaqish, Bahjat F ^b   Suchindran, Chirayath ^b   Bangdiwala, Shrikant I ^b   Wolfson, Mark ^c  

^a Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster trials; Correlated binary outcomes; Generalized estimating equations; Intraclass correlation; Sandwich estimators

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

CLUSTER TRIAL; CORRELATED BINARY OUTCOME; EQUATION PARAMETER; FINITE SAMPLE PROPERTIES; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; INTRACLASS CORRELATIONS; PARAMETERS ESTIMATES; REGRESSION MODELLING; SANDWICH ESTIMATOR; SMALL SAMPLES;

BIOMETRICS;

ADOLESCENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING BIAS; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE; DRINKING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 34547882049     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00764.x     Document Type: Review

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