Fast and accurate modelling of longitudinal and repeated measures neuroimaging data

NeuroImage

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 287-302

  Guillaume, Bryan ^a,b,c   Hua, Xue ^d   Thompson, Paul M ^d   Waldorp, Lourens ^e   Nichols, Thomas E ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADNI; Longitudinal Modelling; Marginal Modelling; Sandwich Estimator

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDWICH ESTIMATOR; AGED; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROIMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84898664663     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.029     Document Type: Article

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