In Chapter 4, we introduced several tools, in the context of the Vorozole study, to graphically explore longitudinal data, both from the individual-level standpoint (Figures 4.1 and 4.5) as well as from the population-averaged or group-averaged perspective (Figures 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, and 10.3). These plots are designed to focus on various structural aspects, such as the mean structure, the variance function, and the association structure.
An extra level of complexity is added whenever not all planned measurements are observed. This results in incompleteness or missingness. Another frequently encountered term is dropout, which refers to the case where all observations on a subject are obtained until a certain point in time, after which all measurements are missing.
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(2009). Exploring Incomplete Data. In: Linear Mixed Models for Longitudinal Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0300-6_14
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