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The Generalized Estimating Equation Approach When Data are Not Missing Completely at Random

Myunghee Cho Paik Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA
Pages 1320-1329 | Received 01 Jun 1995, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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