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  <dc:title>Weighted scores method for regression with dependent data</dc:title>
  <dc:description>This package has functions that handle the steps for the
weighted scores method in Nikoloulopoulos, Joe and Chaganty
(2011, Biostatistics, 12: 653-665) for binary (logistic and
probit), Poisson and negative binomial regression, with
dependent data. Two versions of negative binomial regression
from Cameron and Trivedi (1998) are used. Let NB(tau,xi) be a
parametrization with probability mass function f(y;tau,xi)=
Gamma(tau+y) xi^y / [ Gamma(tau) y! (1+xi)^(tau+y)], for
y=0,1,2,..., tau&gt;0, xi&gt;0, with mean mu=tau*xi = exp(beta^T x)
and variance tau*xi*(1+xi), where x is a vector of covariates.
For NB1, the parameter gamma is defined so that tau=mu/gamma,
xi=gamma; for NB2, the parameter gamma is defined so that
tau=1/gamma, xi=mu*gamma.  In NB1, the convolution parameter
tau is a function of the covariate x and xi is constant; in
NB2, the convolution parameter tau is constant and xi is a
function of the covariate x.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 2.0.0), mvtnorm, rootSolve</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos &lt;A.Nikoloulopoulos@uea.ac.uk&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:contributor>Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos &lt;A.Nikoloulopoulos@uea.ac.uk&gt; and
Harry Joe &lt;harry.joe@ubc.ca&gt;.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2011-10-01</dc:date>
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  <dc:identifier>http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=weightedScores</dc:identifier>
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