Discriminant analysis using a multivariate linear mixed model with a normal mixture in the random effects distribution

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 3267-3283

  Komarek, Arnost ^a   Hansen, Bettina E ^b,c   Kuiper, Edith M M ^c   Van Buuren, Henk R ^c   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^b,d,e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Categorical outcome; Longitudinal profile; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 78650252493     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3849     Document Type: Article

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