Compare the marginal effects for environmental exposure and biomonitoring data with repeated measurements and values below the limit of detection.
I-Chen ChenStephen J BertkeCheryl Fairfield EstillPublished in: Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology (2024)
Marginal modeling is firstly employed to analyze repeated measures data with non-detects, in which only the mean structure needs to be correctly provided to obtain consistent parameter estimates. After replacing non-detects through substitution methods and utilizing small-sample bias corrections, in a simulation study we found that the estimating approaches used in the marginal models have corresponding advantages under a wide range of sample sizes. We also applied the models to longitudinal and cluster working examples.