A generalized Q--Q plot for longitudinal data

M. C. Pardo and R. Alonso

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2012, vol. 39, issue 11, 2349-2362

Abstract: Most biomedical research is carried out using longitudinal studies. The method of generalized estimating equations (GEEs) introduced by Liang and Zeger [ Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models , Biometrika 73 (1986), pp. 13--22] and Zeger and Liang [ Longitudinal data analysis for discrete and continuous outcomes , Biometrics 42 (1986), pp. 121--130] has become a standard method for analyzing non-normal longitudinal data. Since then, a large variety of GEEs have been proposed. However, the model diagnostic problem has not been explored intensively. Oh et al. [ Modeldiagnostic plots for repeated measures data using the generalized estimating equations approach , Comput. Statist. Data Anal. 53 (2008), pp. 222--232] proposed residual plots based on the quantile--quantile (Q--Q) plots of the χ-super-2-distribution for repeated-measures data using the GEE methodology. They considered the Pearson, Anscombe and deviance residuals. In this work, we propose to extend this graphical diagnostic using a generalized residual. A simulation study is presented as well as two examples illustrating the proposed generalized Q--Q plots.

Date: 2012
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