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...
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
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 |