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SUBMITTER: Chen ST
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6526086 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Stephanie T ST Xiao Luo L Staicu Ana-Maria AM
Biometrics 20190406 2
Functional data methods are often applied to longitudinal data as they provide a more flexible way to capture dependence across repeated observations. However, there is no formal testing procedure to determine if functional methods are actually necessary. We propose a goodness-of-fit test for comparing parametric covariance functions against general nonparametric alternatives for both irregularly observed longitudinal data and densely observed functional data. We consider a smoothing-based test ...[more]