Repeated Measures Designs and Analysis of Longitudinal Data: If at First You Do Not Succeed—Try, Try Again

• Published in: Anesthesia and analgesia Vol. 127; no. 2; pp. 569 - 575
• Main Authors: Schober, Patrick, Vetter, Thomas R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the International Anesthesia Research Society 01.08.2018; International Anesthesia Research Society; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Series: Special Article

Anesthesia, critical care, perioperative, and pain research often involves study designs in which the same outcome variable is repeatedly measured or observed over time on the same patients. Such repeatedly measured data are referred to as longitudinal data, and longitudinal study designs are common...