Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson <at> ms.unimelb.edu.au> writes: > I have up to 12 measures of a protein for each of 6 patients, taken > every two or three days. The pattern of the protein looks periodic, > but the height of the peaks is highly variable. I'm testing for > periodicity using a Monte Carlo simulation envelope approach applied > to a cumulative periodogram. Now I want to predict the location of > the peaks in time. Of course, the peaks might be occurring on > unmeasured days.
Have you checked one of the methods in Chapter 13. of MASS to obtain a smoothed estimate? Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.