examples in Applied Longitudinal Analysis
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:23:31 -0500,
Douglas Bates <bates-GX8I/T4BApV4piUD7e9S/g at public.gmane.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Fredrik Nilsson <laf.nilsson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
Dear Sebastian and Doug,
I don't quite understand, is it the data sets in Applied Longitudinal Analysis that is wanted? If so, I made a search on "fitzmaurice applied longitudinal analysis data set" and found some data sets on http://biosun1.harvard.edu/~fitzmaur/ala/ (the homepage of what I assume is the "book"). Or is it the syntax of the analyses that you (Sebastian) wants?
I knew of the site with the data sets and had planned to create an R package for the data sets but then I ran out of steam. (I'm better at starting projects than at finishing them.) In my message I intended to say that if anyone else wanted to create an R package of the data sets and perhaps sample analyses corresponding to those in the book I would be happy to support them. To avoid potential confusion, I would be happy to remove the project that I had started but not finished.
Yes, I was looking for some worked examples using lme4 to learn more about the syntax in lme4 as I read the book, since I'm more used to nlme. I can volunteer to package the data sets first, and later include some analyses from the book with some help for sure. AFAICS, there are no files at all in the R-Forge project AppLong. Should I start this as another R-Forge project/package, perhaps naming it ALA (to follow the convention at CRAN from this kind of package), or keep the project Dr. Bates started and develop there?
Seb