A comparison of several approaches for choosing between working correlation structures in generalized estimating equation analysis of longitudinal binary data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2338-2355

  Shults, Justine ^a   Sun, Wenguang ^a   Tu, Xin ^b   Kim, Hanjoo ^a   Amsterdam, Jay ^a   Hilbe, Joseph M ^c,d   Ten Have, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated binary data; First order autoregressive correlation structure; Generalized estimating equations; Longitudinal data; Longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION MODEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LITHIUM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 69949108823     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3622     Document Type: Article

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