A Joint Modelling Approach for Longitudinal Studies
纵向研究的均值、方差与相关联合建模
Summary In longitudinal studies, it is of fundamental importance to understand the dynamics in the mean function, variance function and correlations of the repeated or clustered measurements. For modelling the covariance structure, Cholesky-type decomposition-based approaches have been demonstrated to be effective. However, parsimonious approaches for directly revealing the correlation structure between longitudinal measurements remain less well explored, and existing joint…