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ArticlePsychological methods2015

Modeling intensive longitudinal data with mixtures of nonparametric trajectories and time-varying effects.

John J Dziak, Runze Li, Xianming Tan, Saul Shiffman, Mariya P Shiyko

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Article in Psychological methods, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 authors.

John J DziakThe Methodology Center, The Pennsylvania State University.
Runze LiDepartment of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University.
Xianming TanResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University.
Saul ShiffmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh.
Mariya P ShiykoDepartment of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University.

Funding

THE REFINEMENT &APPLICATION OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING IN PREVENTION SCIENCESP50DA010075 · NIDA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI COFFMAN, DONNA LYNN · 1996 to 2014
$24.5M
New Statistical Models for Intensive Longitudinal DataR21DA024260 · NIDA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI DIERKER, LISA C, LI, RUNZE · 2007 to 2010
$1.2M
Time-Varying Effects of EMA Predictors on Point-Prevalence Smoking OutcomeR03CA171809 · NCI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI SHIYKO, MARIYA PETROVNA · 2012 to 2013
$156k
NCI NIH HHS R03 CA171809NCI NIH HHS R03 CA171809-01NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA010075NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA024260
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavioral scientists increasingly collect intensive longitudinal data (ILD), in which phenomena are measured at high frequency and in real time. In many such studies, it is of interest to describe the pattern of change over time in important variables as well as the changing nature of the relationship between variables. Individuals' trajectories on variables of interest may be far from linear, and the predictive relationship between variables of interest and related covariates may also change over time in a nonlinear way. Time-varying effect models (TVEMs; see Tan, Shiyko, Li, Li, & Dierker, 2012) address these needs by allowing regression coefficients to be smooth, nonlinear functions of time rather than constants. However, it is possible that not only observed covariates but also unknown, latent variables may be related to the outcome. That is, regression coefficients may change over time and also vary for different kinds of individuals. Therefore, we describe a finite mixture version of TVEM for situations in which the population is heterogeneous and in which a single trajectory would conceal important, interindividual differences. This extended approach, MixTVEM, combines finite mixture modeling with non- or semiparametric regression modeling, to describe a complex pattern of change over time for distinct latent classes of individuals. The usefulness of the method is demonstrated in an empirical example from a smoking cessation study. We provide a versatile SAS macro and R function for fitting MixTVEMs.

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Behavioral ResearchLongitudinal StudiesModels, TheoreticalHumansSmoking Cessation

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PMID26390169
PMCPMC4679529

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