epilepsy

Longitudinal study on epilitic seizures (Thall and Vail, 1990; Diggle et al. 2002). Data consist into 59 individuals with five observations each: The baseline eight-week interval and measurements collected at subsequent visits every two-week.

Likelihood inference in Gaussian copula marginal
        regression models.

Cristiano Varin

gcmr

Gaussian Copula Marginal Regression

epilepsy function

<tabular>ll</tabular>{
<code>id</code> 	patient's id . <code>age</code> 	patient's age. <code>trt</code> 	indicator if the patient is treated with progabide (<code>1</code>) or with placebo (<code>2</code>). <code>counts</code> 	number of epilitic seizures. <code>time</code> 	observation period in weeks (8 for baseline and 2 for subsequent visits). <code>visit</code> 	indicator if baseline (<code>0</code>) or subsequent visit (<code>1</code>). }

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Thall, P.F. and Vail S.C. (1990) Some covariance models for longitudinal count data with overdispersion. <em>Biometrics</em> <b>46</b>, 657--671.

epilepsy: Epilitic Seizures Data

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