Application of Seemingly Unrelated Regression in Medical Data with Intermittently Observed Time-Dependent Covariates

Background. In many studies with longitudinal data, time-dependent covariates can only be measured intermittently (not at all observation times), and this presents difficulties for standard statistical analyses. This situation is common in medical studies, and methods that deal with this challenge w...

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Main Authors: Sareh Keshavarzi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Ayatollahi, Najaf Zare, Maryam Pakfetrat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/821643