Functional principal component analysis for identifying multivariate patterns and archetypes of growth, and their association with long-term cognitive development.

For longitudinal studies with multivariate observations, we propose statistical methods to identify clusters of archetypal subjects by using techniques from functional data analysis and to relate longitudinal patterns to outcomes. We demonstrate how this approach can be applied to examine associatio...

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Main Authors: Kyunghee Han, Pantelis Z Hadjipantelis, Jane-Ling Wang, Michael S Kramer, Seungmi Yang, Richard M Martin, Hans-Georg Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6231639?pdf=render