The effect of cluster size imbalance and covariates on the estimation performance of quadratic inference functions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2209-2222

  Westgate, Philip M ^a   Braun, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trial; Empirical covariance; Estimating equations class; GEE; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER SIZE IMBALANCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUADRATIC INFERENCE FUNCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ASPIRIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865289593     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5329     Document Type: Article

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