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Latent Growth Curve Modeling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)


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Latent expansion bend displaying (LGM)-a special box of assenting cause investigate designed to indication change over time-is an indispensable and increasingly entire proceed for displaying longitudinal data. This volume introduces LGM techniques to researchers, provides easy-to-follow, terse examples of several common expansion displaying approaches, and highlights new advancements per a diagnosis of blank data, parameter estimation, and indication fit.

The book covers a simple linear LGM, and builds from there to report some-more formidable organic forms (e.g., polynomial implicit curves), multivariate implicit expansion curves used to indication coexisting change in mixed variables, a inclusion of time-varying covariates, predictors of aspects of change, cohort-sequential designs, and multiple-group models. The authors also prominence approaches to traffic with blank data, opposite determination methods, and incorporate contention of indication investigate and comparison within a context of LGM. The models denote how they might be practical to longitudinal information subsequent from a NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD)..

Key Features

· Provides easy-to-follow, terse examples of several common expansion displaying approaches

· Highlights new advancements per a diagnosis of blank data, parameter estimation, and indication fit

· Explains a commonalities and differences between implicit expansion indication and multilevel displaying of steady measures information

· Covers a simple linear implicit expansion model, and builds from there to report some-more formidable organic forms such as polynomial implicit curves, multivariate implicit expansion curves, time-varying covariates, predictors of aspects of change, cohort-sequential designs, and multiple-group models


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #431801 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-06-27
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .20" h x 5.40" w x 8.30" l, .30 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages


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Aaron L. Wichman is a doctoral claimant in a Social Psychology module during The Ohio State University, where he serves as coordinator for a department's rudimentary amicable psychology courses. His investigate interests concentration on amicable discernment and a concentration of quantitative techniques to sold differences research, including celebrity assessment.

Kristopher J. Preacher, Ph.D. is an partner highbrow of Quantitative Psychology during a University of Kansas. His investigate focuses essentially on a use of cause analysis, constructional equation modeling, and multilevel displaying to investigate longitudinal and correlational data. Other interests embody building techniques to exam intervention and mediation hypotheses, bridging a opening between speculation and practice, and investigate indication investigate and indication preference in a concentration of multivariate methods to amicable scholarship questions.

Nancy E. Briggs, Ph.D. is a statistician in a Discipline of Public Health during a University of Adelaide. She serves essentially as a information researcher in several investigate projects in a health and behavioral sciences. Her investigate and veteran interests engage a concentration of modernized multivariate statistical techniques, such as linear and nonlinear multilevel models and implicit non-static models, to experimental data.



Robert C. MacCallum, Ph.D. has had a prolonged and renowned career as a reputable quantitative psychologist. His primary investigate interests engage a investigate of quantitative models and methods for a investigate of correlational data, generally cause analysis, constructional equation modeling, and multilevel modeling. Of sold seductiveness is a use of such methods for a investigate of longitudinal data, with a concentration on sold differences in patterns of change over time. He teaches courses in cause investigate and rudimentary and modernized constructional equation modeling. He now serves as a module chair of a L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory during a University of North Carolina during Chapel Hill.



Latent Growth Curve Modeling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Latent Growth Curve Modeling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) (Paperback)
By Dr. Kristopher J. Preacher


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