Generalized Multilevel Functional Regression
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We introduce Generalized Multilevel Functional Linear Models (GMFLM), a
novel statistical framework motivated by and applied to the Sleep Heart
Health Study (SHHS), the largest community cohort study of sleep. The
primary goal of SHHS is to study the association between sleep disrupted
breathing (SDB) and adverse health effects. An exposure of primary
interest is the sleep electroencephalogram (EEG), which was observed for
thousands of individuals at two visits, roughly 5 years apart. This unique
study design led to the development of models where the outcome, e.g.
hypertension, is in an exponential family and the exposure, e.g. sleep
EEG , is multilevel functional data. We show that GMFL Ms are, in fact,
generalized multilevel mixed effect models. Two consequences of this
result are that: 1) the mixed effects inferential machinery can be used
for GMFLM and 2) functional regression models can be extended naturally to
include, for example, additional covariates, random effects and
nonparametric components. We propose and compare two inferential methods
based on the parsimonious decomposition of the functional space.
In collaboration with Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Chongzhi Di.
This talk is part of the MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars series.
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