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Generalized Multilevel Functional Regression, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Ana-Maria Staicu, Chong-Zhi Di Jan 2009

Generalized Multilevel Functional Regression, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Ana-Maria Staicu, Chong-Zhi Di

Chongzhi Di

We introduce Generalized Multilevel Functional Linear Models (GMFLMs), a novel statistical framework for regression models where exposure has a multilevel functional structure. We show that GMFLMs are, in fact, generalized multilevel mixed models. Thus, GMFLMs can be analyzed using the mixed effects inferential machinery and can be generalized within a well-researched statistical framework. We propose and compare two methods for inference: (1) a two-stage frequentist approach; and (2) a joint Bayesian analysis. Our methods are motivated by and applied to the Sleep Heart Health Study, the largest community cohort study of sleep. However, our methods are general and easy to …


Generalized Mcnemar's Test For Homogeneity Of The Marginal Distributions, Zhao Yang Jan 2008

Generalized Mcnemar's Test For Homogeneity Of The Marginal Distributions, Zhao Yang

Zhao (Tony) Yang, Ph.D.

In the matched-pairs data, McNemar's test (McNemar, 1947) can be applied only to the case in which there are two possible categories for the outcome. In practice, however, it is possible that the outcomes are classified into multiple categories. Under this situation, the test statistic proposed by Stuart (1955) and Maxwell (1970) is useful; it is actually the generalization of the McNemar's test, commonly referred to as generalized McNemar's or Stuart-Maxwell test. There is no public available SAS program to calculate this statistic, the author has developed a SAS macro (the code is detailed in appendix) to perform this test …