Applied longitudinal data analysis : modeling change and event occurrence / by Judith B. Singer and John B. Willett.

Author/creator Singer, Judith D.
Other author Willett, John B.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
Description1 online resource (xx, 644 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
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Contents A Framework for Investigating Change over Time -- When Might You Study Change over Time? -- Distinguishing Between Two Types of Questions about Change -- Three Important Features of a Study of Change -- Exploring Longitudinal Data on Change -- Creating a Longitudinal Data Set -- Descriptive Analysis of Individual Change over Time -- Exploring Differences in Change across People -- Improving the Precision and Reliability of OLS-Estimated Rates of Change: Lessons for Research Design -- Introducing the Multilevel Model for Change -- What Is the Purpose of the Multilevel Model for Change? -- The Level-1 Submodel for Individual Change -- The Level-2 Submodel for Systematic Interindividual Differences in Change -- Fitting the Multilevel Model for Change to Data -- Examining Estimated Fixed Effects -- Examining Estimated Variance Components -- Doing Data Analysis with the Multilevel Model for Change -- Example: Changes in Adolescent Alcohol Use -- The Composite Specification of the Multilevel Model for Change -- Methods of Estimation, Revisited -- First Steps: Fitting Two Unconditional Multilevel Models for Change -- Practical Data Analytic Strategies for Model Building -- Comparing Models Using Deviance Statistics -- Using Wald Statistics to Test Composite Hypotheses About Fixed Effects -- Evaluating the Tenability of a Model's Assumptions -- Model-Based (Empirical Bayes) Estimates of the Individual Growth Parameters -- Treating TIME More Flexibly -- Variably Spaced Measurement Occasions -- Varying Numbers of Measurement Occasions.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Singer, Judith D. Applied longitudinal data analysis. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003 0195152964
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780199760725 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0199760721 (electronic bk.)

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