Likelihood estimation for a longitudinal negative binomial regression model with missing outcomes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 369-382

  Bond, Simon J ^b   Farewell, Vernon T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Mundipharma Research Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Informative observation; Likelihood; Missing data; Psoriatic arthritis; Regression; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949114285     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00651.x     Document Type: Article

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