On modelling mean-covariance structures in longitudinal studies

Biometrika

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 239-244

  Pan, Jianxin ^a   MacKenzie, Gilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesky decomposition; Global optimisation; Joint mean covariance model; Longitudinal data analysis

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 3843133868     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/90.1.239     Document Type: Article

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