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  1. P.Mean: What is a Generalized Estimating Equations model? (created 2010-08-19). Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) are a model for your data that can account for dependence among some of your measurements due to repeated measures, cluster sampling, or a longitudinal data set. It represents an extension of the Generalized Linear Model (GLM). Like the GLM, the GEE model allows you to specify a link function and a mean variance relationship. With the appropriate choice of these two items, you can specify a wide variety of models.
  2. P.Mean: What is a good surrogate measure for socioeconomic status (created 2010-05-03). I received a question, indirectly, about what might be a good surrogate measure for socioeconomic status (SES). That raises two questions, actually. What is SES, and how can we tell if a surrogate is a good surrogate for SES.

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  3. P.Mean: What is a normal probability plot? (created 2009-10-29). The normal probability plot, sometimes called the qq plot, is a graphical way of assessing whether a set of data looks like it might come from a standard bell shaped curve (normal distribution). To compute a normal probability plot, first sort your data, then compute evenly spaced percentiles from a normal distribution. Optionally, you can choose the normal distribution to have the same mean and standard deviation as your data, or you can save some time by using evenly spaced percentiles from a standard normal distribution. Finally, plot the evenly spaced percentiles versus the sorted data. A reasonably straight line indicates a distribution that is close to normal. A markedly curved line indicates a distribution that deviates from normality.

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