Efficient estimation in marginal partially linear models for longitudinal/clustered data using splines

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 451-477

  Huang, Jianhua Z ^a   Zhang, Liangyue ^b   Zhou, Lan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JP Morgan Chase   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Generalized estimating equations; Longitudinal data; Marginal model; Non parametric regression; Partially linear models; Polynomial splines; Semiparametric efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547991098     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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