A bias correction for covariance estimators to improve inference with generalized estimating equations that use an unstructured correlation matrix

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2850-2858

  Westgate, Philip M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Correlation structure; Efficiency; Generalized estimating equations; Standard error; Unstructured

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PROCESS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEIZURES;

EID: 84879180863     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5709     Document Type: Article

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