masal-package {masal}R Documentation

Multivariate Adaptive Splines for Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Description

This package facilitates non-parametric longitudinal data analysis.

Details

Package: masal
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2009-11-17

Very convenient to use. Accepts a longitudinal study data set and a nonparametric fit to the data is produced. Two functions are included:
masal
print.masal

Author(s)

Heping Zhang for C++ code and Yunxiao He for R version
Maintainer: Yunxiao He yunxiao.he@yale.edu

References

Zhang, H. (1997), Multivariate adaptive splines for analysis of longitudinal data.
Zhang, H. and Singer, B. (1999) Recursive partitioning in the health sciences, Springer Verlag.

Examples

data(s1)
fit=masal(s1)
print(fit)
summary(fit)

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