title: Some comments on "The analysis of multivariate longitudinal data: A review".
abstract: We provide a commentary on "The analysis of multivariate longitudinal data: a review" by Verbeke et al. The authors provide a comprehensive review of the issues in the analysis of multivariate longitudinal data and use examples to demonstrate the pros and cons of several approaches. In this commentary, we indicate some important omissions in their review paper.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Public Health Sciences - Biostatistics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.|2 Health Equity and Rural Outreach Innovation Center, Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA.
authors.forename: Mulugeta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gebregziabher
keywords: hearing loss data; multivariate longitudinal data; separate random effects; shared random effects