Optimal combination of estimating equations in the analysis of multilevel nested correlated data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 464-473

  Stoner, J A ^a   Leroux, B G ^b   Puumala, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Between cluster effect; Estimation efficiency; Generalized estimating equations; Multilevel nested correlated data; Within cluster effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALVEOLAR BONE LOSS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PERIODONTITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 76549115870     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3776     Document Type: Article

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