GEE for longitudinal ordinal data: Comparing R-geepack, R-multgee, R-repolr, SAS-GENMOD, SPSS-GENLIN

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 77, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-83

  Nooraee, Nazanin ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^b,c   Van Den Heuvel, Edwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bridge distribution; Copula; Correlated ordinal data; Generalized estimating equations; Multivariate logistic distribution

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COPULA; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; ORDINAL DATA; SIMULATION STUDIES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84901953775     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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