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CHAPTER 1 Epid <strong>766</strong>, D. Zhang<br />

2. However, the variability measures (e.g, the SEs <strong>from</strong> a classical<br />

regression analysis) are not right: sometimes smaller, sometimes<br />

bigger than the true variability.<br />

3. Therefore, the inference is not valid (too significant than it should<br />

be if the SE is too small).<br />

Sources <strong>of</strong> variation and correlation in longitudinal data:<br />

1. Between-subject variation: For the blood pressure example, if each<br />

subject’s blood pressures were measured within a relatively short<br />

time, then the following model may be a reasonable one:<br />

yij = bi + eij,<br />

where bi is the true blood pressure <strong>of</strong> subject i, eij is the<br />

independent (random) measurement error, independent <strong>of</strong> bi.<br />

Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology Slide 26

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