Fixed effects, random effects and GEE: What are the differences?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-239

  Gardiner, Joseph C ^a   Luo, Zhehui ^a,b   Roman, Lee Anne ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CES D; Conditional maximum likelihood; Fixed effects; Generalized linear mixed model; Hausman test; Linear mixed model; Random effects; Robust variance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXED EFFECTS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; RANDOM EFFECTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 61749087965     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3478     Document Type: Article

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