Identifying multiple change points in a linear mixed effects model

Although change-point analysis methods for longitudinal data have been developed, it is often of interest to detect multiple change points in longitudinal data. In this paper, we propose a linear mixed effects modeling framework for identifying multiple change points in longitudinal Gaussian data. Specifically, we develop a novel statistical and computational framework that integrates the expectation-maximization and the dynamic programming algorithms. We conduct a comprehensive simulation study to demonstrate the performance of our method. We illustrate our method with an analysis of data from a trial evaluating a behavioral intervention for the control of type I diabetes in adolescents with HbA1c as the longitudinal response variable.

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