Therapeutic hypothermia: quantification of the transition of core body temperature using the flexible mixture bent-cable model for longitudinal data

§On 2013-04-14, a revised version of this manuscript was accepted for publication in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. ∗Author to whom correspondence should be addressed 1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E6, Canada. email: [email protected] 2CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. email: [email protected] 3Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada. email: [email protected] Acknowledgments. This work was partially supported by NSERC through Discovery Grants to G. S. Chiu (RGPIN 261806-05) and J. A. Dubin (RGPIN 327093-06), and by the Government of Ontario through Ontario Graduate Scholarships to S. A. Khan (000113006 & 00012613. The authors thank Dr. P. S. Reynolds, Department of Emergency Medicine and Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Science Center, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA USA, for permitting the rat data to be used in this article.