Abstract
This paper considers a wide class of semiparametric problems with a parametric part for some covariate effects and repeated evaluations of a nonparametric function. Special cases in our approach include marginal models for longitudinal/clustered data, conditional logistic regression for matched case-control studies, multivariate measurement error models, generalized linear mixed models with a semiparametric component, and many others. We propose profile-kernel and backfitting estimation methods for these problems, derive their asymptotic distributions, and show that in likelihood problems the methods are semiparametric efficient. While generally not true, with our methods profiling and backfitting are asymptotically equivalent. We also consider pseudolikelihood methods where some nuisance parameters are estimated from a different algorithm. The proposed methods are evaluated using simulation studies and applied to the Kenya hemoglobin data.
Disciplines
Longitudinal Data Analysis and Time Series | Multivariate Analysis | Statistical Methodology | Statistical Theory
Suggested Citation
Lin, Xihong and Carroll, Raymond J., "Semiparametric Estimation in General Repeated Measures Problems" (September 2005). Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 25.
https://biostats.bepress.com/harvardbiostat/paper25
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