Modeling strategies in longitudinal data analysis: Covariate, variance function and correlation structure selection

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3359-3370

  Wang, You Gan ^a   Hin, Lin Yee ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Socio Economic and Environmental Research Institute   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

CORRELATION STRUCTURE; FINITE SAMPLE PROPERTIES; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; MODEL SELECTION PROCEDURES; MODELING PARADIGMS; VARIANCE FUNCTION;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 77955345287     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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