A modified pseudolikelihood approach for analysis of longitudinal data

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 681-689

  Wang, You Gan ^a   Zhao, Yuning ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Huawei Technologies de Mexico SA de CV   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Estimating functions; Longitudinal data; Misspecification; Pseudolikelihood; Quasilikelihood; Repeated measures; Variance function

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CORRELATION MATRIX; CORRELATION PARAMETERS; COVARIANCE FUNCTION; ESTIMATING FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MISSPECIFICATION; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD; QUASI-LIKELIHOOD; REPEATED MEASURES; VARIANCE FUNCTION;

EFFICIENCY;

CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MATRIX;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 34548422895     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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