Adjusting for confounding by cluster using generalized linear mixed models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 1650-1654

  Brumback, Babette A ^a   Dailey, Amy B ^a   Brumback, Lyndia C ^b   Livingston, Melvin D ^a   He, Zhulin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Conditional likelihood; Misspecified mixing distribution; Model based standardization; Prediction of random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955843402     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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