Conditional generalized estimating equations for the analysis of clustered and longitudinal data

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 772-780

  Goetgeluk, Sylvie ^a   Vansteelandt, Stijn ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confounding; Correlated data; G estimation; Generalized estimating equations; Marginal models; Semiparametric efficiency; Semiparametric regression

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLUSTERED DATUM; CONFOUNDING; CORRELATED DATA; EFFICIENT ESTIMATOR; G-ESTIMATION; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; MARGINAL MODELS; SEMI-PARAMETRIC REGRESSIONS; SEMIPARAMETRIC EFFICIENCY; WITHIN CLUSTERS;

BIOMETRICS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; POPULATION MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING BIAS;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETER; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 49749134283     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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