Tang, Nian-Sheng; Zhao, Pu-Ying - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 65 (2013) 4, pp. 639-665
This paper develops the empirical likelihood (EL) inference on parameters and baseline function in a semiparametric nonlinear regression model for longitudinal data in the presence of missing response variables. We propose two EL-based ratio statistics for regression coefficients by introducing...