Mean estimating equation approach to analysing cluster-correlated data with nonignorable cluster sizes
用均值估计方程分析簇大小不可忽略的簇相关数据
Most methods for analysing cluster-correlated biological data implicitly assume the ignorability of cluster sizes. When this assumption fails, the resulting inferences may be asymptotically invalid. Hoffman et al. (2001) proposed a simple but computationally intensive method, based on a large number of within-cluster resamples and associated separate estimating equations, that leads to asymptotically valid inferences whether the cluster sizes are ignorable or not. We study a…