A note on improving quadratic inference functions using a linear shrinkage approach

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 438-445

  Han, Peisong ^a   Song, Peter X K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Estimation efficiency; Generalized estimating equations; Longitudinal data; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650928361     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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