Nonignorable models for intermittently missing categorical longitudinal responses

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 834-844

  Tsonaka, Roula ^a   Rizopoulos, Dimitris ^b   Verbeke, Geert ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Categorical responses; Constrained vertex exchange method; Marginalized models; Non parametric maximum likelihood; Selection model; Shared parameter model

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CATEGORICAL RESPONSE; CONSTRAINED VERTEX-EXCHANGE METHOD; EXCHANGE METHODS; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MARGINALIZED MODEL; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; NON-PARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NONPARAMETRICS; PARAMETER MODEL; SELECTION MODEL; SHARED PARAMETER MODEL; VERTEX EXCHANGE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

CORRELATION; DATA SET; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956829028     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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