First and Second Order Generalized Estimating Equations and Their Application in Analyzing Longitudinal Microleakage Data

• Main Authors: Farid Zayeri (Author), Somayeh Bardineshin (Author), Ali reza Akbarzadeh-Bagheban (Author), Mamak Adel (Author), Saeid Asgari (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Islamic Dental Association of Iran, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background and Aim : Longitudinal data are frequently obtained in medical studies. When the main aim of a study is marginal modeling of the mean and the correlation structure is considered as a nuisance parameter, the first- order generalized estimating equations (GEE1) is usually an appropriate opt...