Repeated measures

Topic of Random intercepts, part of Correlated data

Repeated measures

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Taught in Random intercepts
Part Correlated data
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Several measurements on the same unit, over time or under different conditions. They are correlated within the unit, so they are not an independent sample; mixed models and marginal models describe that dependence.

In Random intercepts

Every model so far has taken the responses to be independent given the covariates. Clustering, proximity in space or time, and repeated measures on the same person all break that. Two trees in the same soil can be positively dependent because they share conditions, or negatively dependent because they compete. The negative case is real and, as a correlation matrix for a whole block, surprisingly rigid.

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Linear mixed model · Marginal model · Random intercept model · Fixed and random effects · Restricted maximum likelihood · Intraclass correlation

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