Estimation of Individual Growth Curves by Empirically Weighted Least Squares

DOI10.1002/bimj.4710290116zbMath0608.62135OpenAlexW2153774173MaRDI QIDQ3747587

William C. Louv

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Biometrical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.4710290116

zbMATH Keywords

MINQUEweighted least squaresempirical Bayes estimationsimultaneous estimationpolynomial curvegeneralized almost unbiased estimatorindividual growth curvesmean growth curvevariance-covariance estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

Uses Software

• SAS

Cites Work

• A generalized multivariate analysis of variance model useful especially for growth curve problems
• The theory of least squares when the parameters are stochastic and its application to the analysis of growth curves