Working covariance model selection for generalized estimating equations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 3117-3124

  Carey, Vincent J ^a   Wang, You Gan ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Covariance models; Estimating functions; Longitudinal data; Pseudolikelihood; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTICONVULSANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80055093639     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4300     Document Type: Article

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