A robust pairwise likelihood method for incomplete longitudinal binary data arising in clusters

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-51

  Yi, Grace Y ^a   Zeng, Leilei ^b   Cook, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association parameters; Clustered data; Mean parameters; Missing data; Pairwise likelihood; Repeated measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951973770     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10089     Document Type: Article

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