Thanks for your response. No, I haven't - I just looked and didn't see anything that looked suitable for 12 data points. Can you be more precise?
Cheers Andrew On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:43:02AM +0000, Dieter Menne wrote: > 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. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ______________________________________________ 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.