The effect of miss-specified baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal trends in linear mixed models

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 772-783

  Verbeke, Geert ^a   Fieuws, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Baseline characteristics; Growth curve model; Linear mixed model; Longitudinal data; Longitudinal trends

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEARING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEARING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 34848879792     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm004     Document Type: Article

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