Avoiding bias in mixed model inference for fixed effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2696-2707

  Gurka, Matthew J ^a   Edwards, Lloyd J ^b   Muller, Keith E ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound symmetry; Longitudinal data; Random effects; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION RESEARCH; INFERENCE FOR FIXED EFFECT; LINEAR MIXED MODEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 80052832225     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4293     Document Type: Article

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