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  • Statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Conventional growth curve models assume normality and homoscedasticity.
  • Heterogeneous Growth Curve Model (HGM) addresses growth rate heterogeneity with heteroscedastic residuals.
  • Growth curve mixture models offer complementary approaches to handle heterogeneity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce a robust version of the heterogeneous growth curve model (HGM-R).
  • Extend HGM with mixture modeling for unbiased parameter estimation with nonnormal data.
  • Evaluate HGM-R performance under nonnormality and misspecified heteroscedasticity.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a robust heterogeneous growth curve model (HGM-R) incorporating mixture modeling.
  • Conducted two simulation studies to assess HGM-R performance.
  • Examined performance under conditions of nonnormal data and misspecified heteroscedastic residual structures.

Main Results:

  • HGM-R demonstrated unbiased estimation of heterogeneity with sufficient sample size.
  • The method provided a good approximation of heteroscedastic residual structures, even when misspecified.
  • Simulation results support the robustness and accuracy of HGM-R.

Conclusions:

  • HGM-R is a valuable extension for modeling growth heterogeneity with nonnormal data.
  • The robust approach ensures reliable parameter estimation in challenging statistical conditions.
  • Demonstrated practical utility of HGM-R using HIV-infected patient data.