A strategy for selecting among alternative models for continuous longitudinal data

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 647-658

  Knafl, George J ^a   Beeber, Linda ^a   Schwartz, Todd A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Linear mixed modeling; Longitudinal data; Model selection; Penalized likelihood criteria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NURSING RESEARCH; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NETHERLANDS; NURSING RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SMOKING;

EID: 84869097422     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.21508     Document Type: Article

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