Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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Use of Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation in Taylor's Power Law with Correlated Responses

  • Park, Bum-Hee (Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Heung-Sun (Department of Statistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
  • Published : 2008.11.30
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Abstract

Correlated responses have been widely analyzed since Liang and Zeger (1986) introduced the famous Generalized Estimating Equations(GEE). However, their variance functions were restricted to known quantifies multiplied by scale parameter. In so many industries and academic/research fields, power-of-the-mean variance function is one of the common variance function. We suggest GEE-type pseudolikelihood estimation based on the power-of-the-mean variance using existing software and investigate it's efficiency for different working correlation matrices.

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