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Flexible estimation of covariance function by penalized spline with application to longitudinal family data.
Statistics in medicine - 10 Jul 2011
Wang Yuanjia
Abstract excerpt
Longitudinal data are routinely collected in biomedical research studies. A natural model describing longitudinal data decomposes an individual's outcome as the sum of a population mean function and random subject-specific deviations. When parametric assumptions are too restrictive, methods modeling the population mean function and the random subject-specific functions nonparametrically are in demand. In some...
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