An improved quadratic inference function for parameter estimation in the analysis of correlated data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 3260-3273

  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

Correlated data; Efficiency; Estimating equations; Expected quadratic loss; Marginal model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; COVARIANCE; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION METHOD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUADRATIC INFERENCE FUNCTION; SAMPLING ERROR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CORRELATED DATA; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; EXPECTED QUADRATIC LOSS; MARGINAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SEIZURES;

EID: 84880296886     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5715     Document Type: Article

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