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TABLE OF CONTENTS Epid <strong>766</strong>, D. Zhang<br />

Contents<br />

1 Review and introduction to longitudinal studies 3<br />

1.1 Review <strong>of</strong> 3 study designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.2 Introduction to longitudinal studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

1.3 <strong>Data</strong> examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

1.4 Features <strong>of</strong> longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

1.5 Why longitudinal studies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

1.6 Challenges in analyzing longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

1.7 Methods for analyzing longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

1.8 Two-stage method for analyzing longitudinal data . . . . . 29<br />

1.9 Analyzing Framingham data using two-stage method . . . 31<br />

2 Linear mixed models for normal longitudinal data 46<br />

2.1 What is a linear mixed (effects) model? . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />

2.2 Estimation and inference for linear mixed models . . . . . 63<br />

2.3 How to choose random effects and the error structure? . . 65<br />

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