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ABSTRACT
The summary measure approach to the analysis of longitudinal data described in the previous chapter sometimes provides a useful first step in making inferences about the data, but it is really only ever a first step, and a more complete and a more appropriate analysis will involve fitting a suitable model to the data and estimating parameters that link the explanatory variables of interest to the repeated measures of the response variable.
