B0219
Title: Modeling longitudinal data with measurement error in covariates
Authors: Mahmoud Torabi - University of Manitoba (Canada) [presenting]
Md Erfanul Hoque - University of Manitoba (Canada)
Abstract: Longitudinal data occur frequently in practice such as medical studies and life sciences. Generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) are commonly used to analyze such data. It is typically assumed that the random effects covariance matrix is constant among subjects in these models. In many situations, however, the correlation structure may differ among subjects and ignoring this heterogeneity can lead to biases in model parameters estimate. Covariates measured with an error also happen frequently in the longitudinal data set-up (eg, blood pressure and cholesterol level). Ignoring this issue in the data may produce bias in model parameters estimate and lead to wrong conclusions. We propose an approach to properly model the random effects covariance matrix based on covariates in the class of GLMMs, where we also have covariates measured with error. The resulting parameters from the decomposition of random effects covariance matrix have a sensible interpretation and can be easily modeled without the concern of positive definiteness of the resulting estimator. Performance of the proposed approach is evaluated through simulation studies and also by a real data application.
