[R] A model for possibly periodic data with varying amplitude [repost, much edited]
Dieter Menne
dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Wed Aug 16 08:43:02 CEST 2006
Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson <at> ms.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> I have up to 12 measures of a protein for each of 6 patients, taken
> every two or three days. The pattern of the protein looks periodic,
> but the height of the peaks is highly variable. I'm testing for
> periodicity using a Monte Carlo simulation envelope approach applied
> to a cumulative periodogram. Now I want to predict the location of
> the peaks in time. Of course, the peaks might be occurring on
> unmeasured days.
Have you checked one of the methods in Chapter 13. of MASS to obtain a smoothed
estimate?
Dieter
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