Working-correlation-structure identification in generalized estimating equations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 642-658

  Hin, Lin Yee ^a   Wang, You Gan ^b  

^a 207 Yat Tung Shopping Center ^*  (Hong Kong)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Correlation information criterion; Correlation modelling; Covariance; Efficiency; Generalized estimating equations; Model selection; QIC; Working correlation structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITERION VARIABLE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; POSITIVE SYNDROME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKING CORRELATION STRUCTURE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 63149190796     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3489     Document Type: Article

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