(1) Department of Methodology and Statistics, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box. 80140, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Clinical Psychology, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands
Abstract:
The linear mixed-effects model has been widely used for the analysis of continuous longitudinal data. This paper demonstrates that the linear mixed model can be adapted and used for the analysis of structured repeated measurements. A computational advantage of the proposed methodology is that there is no extra burden on the analyst since any software for linear mixed-effects models can be used to fit the proposed models. Two data sets from clinical psychology are used as motivating examples and to illustrate the methods.
