Effects of variance-function misspecification in analysis of longitudinal data

Biometrics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 413-421

  Wang, You Gan ^a   Lin, Xu ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asymptotic efficiency; Correlated data; Estimating functions; Gaussian estimation; Longitudinal data; Misspecification; Pseudolikelihood

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY;

ASYMPTOTIC EFFICIENCY; CORRELATED DATA; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; ESTIMATING FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN ESTIMATION; GAUSSIANS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MISSPECIFICATION; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD; VARIANCE FUNCTION;

SPECIFICATIONS;

GROWTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VARIANCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 9744251273     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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