ABSTRACT

The First Book Dedicated to This Class of Longitudinal ModelsAlthough antedependence models are particularly useful for modeling longitudinal data that exhibit serial correlation, few books adequately cover these models. By gathering results scattered throughout the literature, Antedependence Models for Longitudinal Data offers a convenient, system

chapter 1|26 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|32 pages

Unstructured Antedependence Models

chapter 3|24 pages

Structured Antedependence Models

chapter 4|28 pages

Informal Model Identification

chapter 5|56 pages

Likelihood-Based Estimation

chapter 7|24 pages

Testing Hypotheses on the Mean Structure

chapter 8|18 pages

Case Studies

chapter 9|12 pages

Further Topics and Extensions