updateBeta {MIIPW}

internal function for updating beta through Fisher Scoring

Description

internal function for updating beta through Fisher Scoring

Usage

updateBeta(y, x, vfun, mu, w, D, Ralpha, beta)

Arguments

y

response value for GEE model

x

model matrix for the GEE model

vfun

variance function for the GLM

mu

mu vector for the GLM

w

weight matrix

D

derivation of the inverse link function

Ralpha

correlation matrix

beta

vector of beta value for GEE model