Informative Estimation and Selection of Correlation Structure for Longitudinal Data
纵向数据相关结构的信息性估计与选择
Identifying an informative correlation structure is important in improving estimation efficiency for longitudinal data. We approximate the empirical estimator of the correlation matrix by groups of known basis matrices that represent different correlation structures, and transform the correlation structure selection problem to a covariate selection problem. To address both the complexity and the informativeness of the correlation matrix, we minimize an objective function…