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Methodological Issues With Coding Participants in Anonymous Psychological Longitudinal Studies
Longitudinal studies are commonly used in the social and behavioral sciences to answer a wide variety of research questions. Longitudinal researchers often collect data anonymously from participants when studying sensitive topics to ensure that accurate ...
Lillian M. Audette+2 more
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Risk factors relate to the variability of health outcomes as well as the mean: A GAMLSS tutorial
Background: Risk factors or interventions may affect the variability as well as the mean of health outcomes. Understanding this can aid aetiological understanding and public health translation, in that interventions which shift the outcome mean and ...
David Bann, Liam Wright, Tim J Cole
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Background: Taller individuals have been repeatedly found to have higher scores on cognitive assessments. Recent studies have suggested that this association can be explained by genetic factors, yet this does not preclude the influence of environmental ...
David Bann+3 more
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The development of polypharmacy. A longitudinal study [PDF]
To date, only a few studies have been carried out on the development and progress of polypharmacy in relation to morbidity in general practices in The Netherlands.The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between an increase in long-term drug use and the incidence and severity of some chronic diseases, particularly in the elderly.Data ...
Roy E. Stewart+3 more
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Detection of risk factors for obesity in early childhood with quantile regression methods for longitudinal data [PDF]
This article compares and discusses three different statistical methods for investigating risk factors for overweight and obesity in early childhood by means of the LISA study, a recent German birth cohort study with 3097 children.
Fahrmeir, Ludwig+3 more
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Nonparametric Bayes modeling of count processes [PDF]
Data on count processes arise in a variety of applications, including longitudinal, spatial and imaging studies measuring count responses. The literature on statistical models for dependent count data is dominated by models built from hierarchical ...
Canale, Antonio, Dunson, David B.
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Background Slow gait speed is a powerful predictor of disability in activities of daily living and mortality. Muscle strength and body composition change over time, but their changes differ by sex.
Yusuke Osawa+4 more
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We aimed to investigate cohort differences in age trajectories of hospitalization due to non-communicable conditions, and if these varied by paternal socioeconomic position.
Dawid Gondek+5 more
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Background High blood pressure (BP) is a key modifiable determinant of cardiovascular disease and a likely determinant of other adverse health outcomes.
David Bann+3 more
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The Stability and Change of Loneliness Across the Life Span: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies
Individuals experience loneliness when they perceive a deficiency in the quality or quantity of their social relationships. In the present meta-analysis, we compiled data from 75 longitudinal studies conducted in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North ...
Marcus Mund+4 more
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