Identifying latent clusters of variability in longitudinal data
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Identifying latent clusters of variability in longitudinal data.
Means or other central tendency measures are by far the most common focus of statistical analyses. However, as Carroll (2003) noted, "systematic dependence of variability on known factors" may be "fundamental to the proper solution of scientific problems" in certain settings. We develop a latent cluster model that relates underlying "clusters" of variability to baseline or outcome measures of i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biostatistics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1468-4357,1465-4644
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm003