Mathematics – Statistics Theory
Scientific paper
2011-03-09
Annals of Statistics 2011, Vol. 39, No. 1, 389-417
Mathematics
Statistics Theory
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOS846 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of
Scientific paper
10.1214/10-AOS846
Clustered binary data with a large number of covariates have become increasingly common in many scientific disciplines. This paper develops an asymptotic theory for generalized estimating equations (GEE) analysis of clustered binary data when the number of covariates grows to infinity with the number of clusters. In this "large $n$, diverging $p$" framework, we provide appropriate regularity conditions and establish the existence, consistency and asymptotic normality of the GEE estimator. Furthermore, we prove that the sandwich variance formula remains valid. Even when the working correlation matrix is misspecified, the use of the sandwich variance formula leads to an asymptotically valid confidence interval and Wald test for an estimable linear combination of the unknown parameters. The accuracy of the asymptotic approximation is examined via numerical simulations. We also discuss the "diverging $p$" asymptotic theory for general GEE. The results in this paper extend the recent elegant work of Xie and Yang [Ann. Statist. 31 (2003) 310--347] and Balan and Schiopu-Kratina [Ann. Statist. 32 (2005) 522--541] in the "fixed $p$" setting.
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