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Mixture Modeling With Applications In Alzheimer's Disease, Frank Appiah
Mixture Modeling With Applications In Alzheimer's Disease, Frank Appiah
Theses and Dissertations--Epidemiology and Biostatistics
This dissertation involves an application of mixture of regression models to 114 individuals who are cognitively intact (from the Alzheimer's Disease and Neuroimaging Initiative-ADNI, data). The correct number of components in the model were estimated with the Singular BIC (SBIC), marking the first time it has been applied to such a problem. The smallest true model in conjunction with the approximation of SBIC was fixed at 1. The resulting posterior probabilities from the model were used to estimate the probability of a person transitioning and risk plots were obtained that could in principle be used by clinicians to identify patients …