[R-sig-ME] [OT] was: lmer vs lmer2 is: great book!

[Andrew Robinson]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:51:17AM +0200, Henric Nilsson (Private) wrote:
> The data set in question, and, I belive, most others from Fitzmaurice,  
> Laird and Ware's (2004) book on longitudinal data analysis, is  

Which, I would like to add is a great book.  As part of a review for
Statistics in Medicine I asked Fitzmaurice to count the occurrences of
"For example," and "In other words," ... it was 300 and 400 times,
respectively.

I heartily recommend it as an introductory text to the area.

Andrew

> available along with accompanying SAS programs at
> 
> http://biosun1.harvard.edu/~fitzmaur/ala/
> 
> In particular, the data used above is here
> 
> http://biosun1.harvard.edu/~fitzmaur/ala/fev1.txt
> 
> and the SAS code is here
> 
> http://biosun1.harvard.edu/~fitzmaur/ala/prog8_8.html
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Henric
> 
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