Doubly robust generalized estimating equations for longitudinal data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 937-955

  Seaman, Shaun ^a   Copas, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Augmented inverse probability weighting estimator; Doubly protected GEE; Marginal models; Monotone dropout; Restricted moment model

Indexed keywords

EFAVIRENZ; NELFINAVIR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; STATISTICS;

LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 65549093302     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3520     Document Type: Article

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