Correlation structure and model selection for negative binomial distribution in GEE

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 190-197

  Cui, Jisheng ^a,b   Feng, Liyun ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GEE; Longitudinal; Negative binomial; QIC

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

GEE; LONGITUDINAL; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; QIC; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DISPERSION PARAMETERS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 77953283029     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910802446985     Document Type: Article

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