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Theory and Methods

A Weighted Estimating Equation for Missing Covariate Data with Properties Similar to Maximum Likelihood

Stuart R. Lipsitz Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology, USA
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Joseph G. Ibrahim Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Lue Ping Zhao Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98104, USA
Pages 1147-1160 | Received 01 Oct 1997, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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