Smoothing methods attempt to find functional relationships between different measurements. As in the standard regression setting, the data is assumed to consist of measurements of a response variable, and one or more predictor variables. Standard regression techniques (Chapter ??) specify a...

Smoothing methods attempt to find functional relationships between different measurements. As in the standard regression setting, the data is assumed to consist of measurements of a response variable, and one or more predictor variables. Standard regression techniques (Chapter ??) specify a...

Smoothing methods attempt to find functional relationships between different measurements. As in the standard regression setting, the data is assumed to consist of measurements of a response variable, and one or more predictor variables. Standard regression techniques (Chapter ??) specify a...

In many biomedical studies, we are interested in comparing treatment effects with an inherent ordering. We propose a "quadratic score test" (QST) based on a quadratic inference function for detecting an order in treatment effects for correlated data. The quadratic inference function is similar...