A Semiparametric Marginalized Model for Longitudinal Data with Informative Dropout

Table 4

Estimates of regression coefficients for the MDRD study.

	Proposed						GEE
Variable	Normal		EV		Logistic
	Est	SE	Est	SE	Est	SE	Est	SE
Intercept	18.54	0.96	18.57	0.91	18.58	1.11	18.57	0.78
Time	−0.27	0.03	−0.29	0.04	−0.28	0.03	−0.14	0.03
Intervention	0.82	1.06	0.74	1.01	0.71	1.17	0.35	0.90
Prog	−0.14	1.07	−0.08	1.02	−0.14	1.19	−0.14	0.91
Bp	−0.15	1.38	−0.20	1.34	−0.07	1.48	−0.36	0.49
log.Pt	−1.09	0.39	−1.09	0.37	−1.12	0.42	−0.61	0.38
𝜂𝑖	1.91	0.50	1.38	0.38	1.11	0.28
𝜂𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑗	0.14	0.04	0.14	0.04	0.08	0.03

Intervention: blood pressure control (1: low and 0: normal); Prog: baseline disease progression status (1: yes and 0: no); Bp: baseline blood pressure; log.Pt: baseline log-transformed urine protein level.