The first‐order Markov conditional linear expectation approach for analysis of longitudinal data

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 40; no. 8; pp. 1972 - 1988
• Main Authors: Bender, Shaun, Gamerman, Victoria, Reese, Peter P., Gray, Daniel Lloyd, Li, Yimei, Shults, Justine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 15.04.2021
• Subjects: binary random variables; discrete data; first‐order antedependence; first‐order Markov; generalized estimating equations; Generalized linear models; Performance evaluation; first-order antedependence; first-order Markov; discrete data; generalized estimating equations; binary random variables

We consider longitudinal discrete data that may be unequally spaced in time and may exhibit overdispersion, so that the variance of the outcome variable is inflated relative to its assumed distribution. We implement an approach that extends generalized linear models for analysis of longitudinal data...