Analysis of ambulatory blood pressure monitor data using a hierarchical model incorporating restricted cubic splines and heterogeneous within-subject variances

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3789-3805

  Vail, A ^a,d   Hornbuckle, J ^a   Spiegelhalter, D J ^b   Thornton, J G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MONITOR; MORBIDITY; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT REFERRAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0035977416     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1172     Document Type: Article

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