Model Diagnostic Plots for Repeated Measures Data

In the analysis of repeated measurements, multivariate regression models that account for the correlations among the observations from the same subject are widely used. Like the usual univariate regression models, these multivariate regression models also need some model diagnostic procedures. Though these models have been widely used, not many studies have been performed in model diagnostic areas. In this paper, we propose simple residual plots to investigate the goodness of model fit for repeated measures data. Here, we mainly focus on the mean model diagnostics. The proposed residual plots are based on the quantile-quantile(Q–Q) plots of a χ2 distribution and a normal distribution. In particular, the proposed model is useful in comparing several models simultaneously. The proposed method is illustrated using two examples. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)