wgeesel (version 1.5)

RJ.gee: RJC for GEE

Description

Calculate RJC (Rotnitzky-Jewell information criterion) based on GEE.

Usage

RJ.gee(object)

Arguments

object

a fitted model object of class "wgee".

Value

Return the value of the Rotnitzky-Jewell information criterion (RJ).

Details

Rotnitzky-Jewell information criterion (RJC) is usually used for working correlation structure selection.

References

Rotnitzky, A. and Jewell, N.P., 1990. Hypothesis testing of regression parameters in semiparametric generalized linear models for cluster correlated data. Biometrika, pp.485-497.

See Also

geeglm (geepack)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(ohio)

fit <- wgee(resp ~ age + smoke+age:smoke, data=ohio, id=ohio$id, 
            family="binomial", corstr="exchangeable")
       
RJ.gee(fit)

# }