On the asymptotics of marginal regression splines with longitudinal data

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 907-917

  Zhu, Zhongyi ^a   Fung, Wing K ^b   He, Xuming ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; B spline; Generalized estimating equation; Generalized linear model; Least squares; Longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249114756     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn041     Document Type: Article

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