ESTIMATING KNOTS IN BILINEAR SPLINE GROWTH MODELS WITH TIME-INVARIANT COVARIATES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF INDIVIDUAL MEASUREMENT OCCASIONS
Longitudinal studies of change abound in the fields of epidemiology and public health to evaluate individual growth over time. Analyzing this type of data poses various interesting statistical challenges. Our motivating dataset in this project arises from an osteoarthritis study, where the change pa...
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VCU Scholars Compass
2019
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| Online Access: | https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6044 https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7140&context=etd |