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ANALYSIS OF REPEATED MEASURES DATA

1990; New Prairie Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4148/2475-7772.1427

2475-7772

Ramon C. Littell,

Remote Sensing and Land Use

Data with repeated measures occur frequently in agricultural research. This paper is a brief overview of statistical methods for repeated measures data. Statistical analysis of repeated measures data requires special attention due to the correlation structure, which may render standard analysis of variance techniques invalid. For balanced data, multivariate analysis of variance methods can be employed and adjustments can be applied to univariate methods, as means of accounting for the correlation structure. But these analysis of variance methods do not apply readily with unbalanced data, and they overlook the regression on time. Regression curves for treatment groups can be obtained by fitting a curve to each experimental unit; and then averaging the coefficients over the units. Treatment groups can be compared by applying univariate and multivariate methods to the group means of the coefficients. This approach does not require knowledge of the correlation structure of the repeated measures, and an approximate version of it can be applied with unbalanced data.