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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">jds-13-3-2-jds02</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201507_13(3).0002</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Functional Varying Coefficient Model with Time-independent Covariate and Longitudinal Response</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Mostafaiy</surname>
            <given-names>Behdad</given-names>
          </name>
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        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Department of Statistics, Shahid Beheshti University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Faridrohani</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammad Reza</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Department of Statistics, Shahid Beheshti University</aff>
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      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>443</fpage>
      <lpage>456</lpage>
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        <p>In this paper, we consider functional varying coefficient model in present of a time invariant covariate for sparse longitudinal data contaminated with some measurement errors. We propose a regularization method to estimate the slope function based on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space approach. As we will see, our procedure is easy to implement. Our simulation results show that the procedure performs well, especially when either sampling frequency or sample size increases. Applications of our method are illustrated in an analysis of a longitudinal CD4+ count dataset from an HIV study.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>CD4+ count</kwd>
        <kwd>functional varying coefficient model</kwd>
        <kwd>longitudinal data analysis</kwd>
        <kwd>reproducing kernel Hilbert space</kwd>
        <kwd>sparsity</kwd>
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