Hello,
I have a multi-level, cohort dataset with three levels: repeat measures of a
response (level 1), that are collected from individual participants (level 2)
who are students within a school (level 3). I would like to do a generalized
estimating equation (GEE) analysis of this clustered data, but to do so I need
to specify ‘nested’ correlation structures (e.g. exchangeable, compound
symmetric, Toeplitz) to account for the within-individual and within-cluster
correlations.
Here is a reference paper that describes a nested exchangeable correlation
structure and nested compound symmetry: doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01374.x.
The geepack is available in R to do GEE analyses, but it seems to me that it
only allows the user to specify a correlation structure via the
geepack(…‘corstr = ‘) option which only accounts for the within-individual
correlations (that arise from repeated measures). Would it be possible to
specify the nested correlation structures that I refer to here to also account
for the within-cluster correlations using this package?
Thank you,
Edward
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