In clinical research, patient care decisions are often easier to make if patients are classified into a manageable number of groups based on homogeneous risk patterns. Investigators can use latent group-based trajectory modeling to estimate the posterior probabilities that an individual will be...

Censoring of a longitudinal outcome often occurs when data are collected in a biomedical study and where the interest is in the survival and or longitudinal experiences of a study population. In the setting considered herein, we encountered upper and lower censored data as the result of...