GEE analysis of clustered binary data with diverging number of covariates

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 389-417

  Wang, Lan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered binary data; Generalized estimating equations (GEE); Highdimensional covariates; Sandwich variance formula

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551587551     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOS846     Document Type: Article

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