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SUBMITTER: Tang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5963473 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tang Yuanyuan Y Sinha Debajyoti D Pati Debdeep D Lipsitz Stuart S Lipshultz Steven S
Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 20150319 3
Unlike majority of current statistical models and methods focusing on mean response for highly skewed longitudinal data, we present a novel model for such data accommodating a partially linear median regression function, a skewed error distribution and within subject association structures. We provide theoretical justifications for our methods including asymptotic properties of the posterior and associated semiparametric Bayesian estimators. We also provide simulation studies to investigate the ...[more]