Nonparametric Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Mixed-Effects Modeling Approaches

Nonparametric Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Mixed-Effects Modeling Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-369

  Wu, Hulin ^a   Zhang, Jin Ting ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; REGRESSION SPLINES; TIME-VARYING COEFFICIENT;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873356786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470009675     Document Type: Book

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