Retrovar - Description
This program, developed by J Halpern and AS Whittemore,
finds the estimates for the parameters associated with the covariates
and the covariance matrix of the estimates for
the "marginal covariate model" as described in the "THEOREM"
in the
section titled "ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION OF β ˆ FOR MARGINAL
COVARIATE MODELS" (see reference below).
RETROVAR - Background References
A detailed description of the statistical underpinnings of the software can
be found in the following articles:
Whittemore AS, Halpern J. Logistic Regression of Family Data From Retrospective
Study Designs. Genetic Epidemiology 25:177-189 (2003)
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