Criteria to Select a Working Correlation Structure in SAS

The generalized estimating equations (GEE) method is popular for analyzing clustered and longitudinal data. It is important to determine a proper working correlation matrix when applying the GEE method since an improper selection sometimes results in inefficient parameter estimates. In this paper, w...

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Main Author: Masahiko Gosho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2014-03-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2142