A linear mixed model approach to compare the evolution of multiple biological rhythms

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1125-1135

  Fontana, Andrea ^a   Copetti, Massimiliano ^a   Mazzoccoli, Gianluigi ^a   Kypraios, Theodore ^b   Pellegrini, Fabio ^a,c  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Unit of Biostatistics DPCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronobiology; Cosinor analysis; Longitudinal data; Multiple biorhythms; Multivariate linear mixed model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSINOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOSTATISTICS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIODICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 84874951564     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5712     Document Type: Article

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