Using the general linear mixed model to analyse unbalanced repeated measures and longitudinal data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2349-2380

  Cnaan, Avital ^a   Laird, Nan M ^b   Slasor, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0030670430     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971030)16:20<2349::AID-SIM667>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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