A bias-corrected covariance estimate for improved inference with quadratic inference functions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 4003-4022

  Westgate, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Coverage probability; Marginal model; Standard error; Test size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROBABILITY; QUADRATIC INFERENCE FUNCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870057548     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5479     Document Type: Article

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