July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 30m
English
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Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them), 4th Edition
by Phillip I. Good, James W. Hardin
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For more on the contrast between fixed-effect “assumption-free” methods, and random-effect “assumed-representativeness” methods, see Section 5.17 of http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/reports/ebctcg-1990/section5.
See Hardin and Hilbe [2003, p. 28] for a more detailed explanation of specifying the correlation structure in population-averaged GEEs. See Zeger and Liang [1986] for detailed investigations of efficiency and consistency for misspecified correlation structures in population-averaged GEEs.
See McCullagh and Nelder [1989] and Hardin and Hilbe [2007] for the theory and application of GLMs. See Skrondal and Rabe-Hesketh [2004] for extensions of GLMs to include latent variables, and to structural equation models. For more information on longitudinal data analysis utilizing specific software, Stata users should see Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal [2008] and SAS users should see Cody [2001].
Notes
1 As first defined by Nelder and Wedderburn [1972].
2 They do not have a log-normal distribution as reported by Saslaw [2008].
3 Durbin [1954], Wu [1973], and Hausman [1978] independently discuss this test.
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