Quadratic inference functions in marginal models for longitudinal data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 3683-3696

  Song, Peter X K ^a   Jiang, Zhichang ^b   Park, Eunjoo ^c   Qu, Annie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Alberta Cancer Board   (Canada)

^c ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; GEE; Goodness of fit; Model selection; Robustness; SAS macro

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROGABIDE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEIZURES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 72849118016     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3719     Document Type: Article

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