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Bayesian Modeling For Longitudinal Count Data: Applications In Biomedical Research, Morshed Alam
Bayesian Modeling For Longitudinal Count Data: Applications In Biomedical Research, Morshed Alam
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Biomedical count data such as the number of seizures for epilepsy patients, number of new tumors at each visit or the number vomiting after each chemo-radiation for the cancer patients are common. Often these counts are measured longitudinally from patients or within clusters in multi-site trials. The Poisson and negative binomial models may not be adequate when data exhibit over or under-dispersion, respectively. On the contrary, a variety of dispersion conditions in count data can be captured by Conway-Maxwell Poisson (CMP) model.
This doctoral dissertation relegates to developing a statistical methodology to model longitudinal count data distributed as CMP via …