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2012 May 21
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fda modeling
...tial removal of kidney tissue, 11 to sham operation, and then followed for 6 weeks. So far we have data on 26 urine metabolites measured by NMR 7 times during the observation. I have smoothed the measurements by b.splines in fda including a roughness penalty, and inspecting the mean curves for nephrectomized and sham animals indicate differences for several of the metabolites. Now the real idea is to use the NMR measurements to understand what goes on in the kidneys since we know the partial removal of kidney tissue will result in progressive damage in the kidneys - the nature of that is what we wa...