Shrinkage empirical likelihood estimator in longitudinal analysis with time-dependent covariates: Application to modeling the health of Filipino children

• Main Authors: LEUNG, Denis H. Y., SMALL, Dylan S., QIN, Jing, ZHU, Min
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Empirical likelihood; Estimating functions; Generalized estimating equations; Longitudinal data; Econometrics; Medicine and Health Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1540; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2539/viewcontent/Leung_ShrinkageEmpiricalLEFilipinoChildren_2013.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The method of generalized estimating equations (GEE) is a popular tool for analysing longitudinal (panel) data. Often, the covariates collected are time-dependent in nature, for example, age, relapse status, monthly income. When using GEE to analyse longitudinal data with time-dependent covariates,...