Selection of working correlation structure in generalized estimating equations via empirical likelihood

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-41

  Chen, Jien ^a   Lazar, Nicole A ^b  

^a SymphonyIRI Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIC; BIC; Longitudinal data; Model selection; Resampling procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859876036     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2011.09128     Document Type: Article

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