Robust estimation for homoscedastic regression in the secondary analysis of case-control data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 185-206

  Wei, Jiawei ^a   Carroll, Raymond J ^a   Müller, Ursula U ^a   Keilegom, Ingrid Van ^b,c   Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased samples; Homoscedastic regression; Secondary data; Secondary phenotypes; Semiparametric inference; Two stage samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871370742     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2012.01052.x     Document Type: Article

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