S-Plus tools for the analysis of repeated measures data

Authors Adelchi Azzalini, Monica Chiogna

Publication date 15 September 1999

Published in Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

data analysis data fitting likelihood method missing data nonparametric smoothing packaged method repeated measures S-Plus language unbalanced data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Numerical smoothing, curve fitting (65D10) Packaged methods for numerical algorithms (65Y15)

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This paper describes the main features of a package \texttt{rm.tools} designed for the analysis of repeated measured data. The package is based on three main procedures, called \texttt{rm.plot(), rm.mean()} and \texttt{rm.fit()} along with some subsidiary modules. Two first procedures provide data plotting and preliminary analysis including the nonparametric smoothing. Procedure \texttt{rm.fit()} performs the fit of parametric models via likelihood methods for each one of three possible families of distributions (normal, binary, Poisson). All procedures allow the presence of missing or unbalanced data, time dependent covariates as well as the presence of serial correlation. Software tools are written in S-Plus language except some FORTRAN routines which are interfaced through S-Plus. From the introduction: The software is freely available from the archive server StatLib and from the \texttt{ftp} server of the Department of Statistics Science, University of Padua..

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